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INDIANAPOLIS — The man who raped, stabbed and murdered a 19-year-old Indianapolis woman over 30 years ago will now spend nearly 50 years behind bars. Dana Shepherd, 53, was sentenced on Friday to 45 years in prison. Van Huss was raped and stabbed 61 times by a man who broke into her studio apartment. After first being discovered by her father, police said they found her nude body lying in a large pool of blood. “We hope after all this time people understand how violent my sister’s murder was,” Jimmy Van Huss said in 2024. “She was raped and stabbed...

A maniac pushed a woman onto the subway tracks and punched another lady in the face in Sunset Park, Brooklyn on Saturday — and was later arrested at a nearby shelter, police and sources said. A 51-year-old was shoved and a 43-year-old was socked on the R subway line at 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue around 8:45 a.m., according to cops. A 25-year-old person of interest was taken into custody at the shelter, police sources said, noting both victims suffered facial injuries as well as pain to the legs and back.

The owner of an Ethiopian-Israeli restaurant in Harlem says she has been forced to close her establishment for regular dining due to alleged harassment and antisemitism. Beejhy Barhany, owner of the Tsion Cafe, told the New York Post that hate directed at her restaurant intensified after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which prompted the country’s war with Hamas. Barhany also told the outlet that the alleged hate and harassment have left her “demoralized.” “I answered the phone once at the restaurant and the caller said, ‘You dirty Jew. We should erase you from the map,'” Barhany said. “I...

A pair of greedy sisters were filmed attacking supermarket staff and hurling racist slurs while allegedly stealing lobster, steaks and truffle butter. Olivia L. Byrd, 37, and Rahjane J. Byrd, 28, were caught on camera swinging at employees inside a Market Basket in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, last weekend. Wild footage captured inside the store caught the moment the two violently punched an employee and hurled bags at them while shouting their heads off. One of the sisters was seen clobbering a worker in the head, while the other charged at another employee, swinging a blue bag at them. As the...

Video Transcript SummaryNearly five years after a horrific sulfuric acid attack on March 17, 2021, in Elmont, Nassau County, New York, police have arrested and charged 29-year-old Terrell Campbell of Brooklyn.The victim, then-21-year-old Hofstra University student Nafiah Ikram (also referred to as Nafia Ekram), was ambushed in her driveway by a hooded assailant who threw acid in her face, causing severe burns to her face and arms, permanent scarring, vision loss in one eye, and ongoing emotional trauma.Campbell, a flower delivery worker and aspiring rapper (known as "Yung Based Prince"), was arraigned on Tuesday (February 10 or 11, 2026, based...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot tells lawmaker the French government demands UN Rapporteur's resignation after her latest hateful rant against Israel. “France unreservedly condemns the outrageous and reprehensible remarks made by Ms. Francesca Albanese, which are directed not at the Israeli government, whose policies may be criticized, but at Israel as a people and as a nation, which is absolutely unacceptable," Barrot said. He stated that Albanese's remarks “target not the Israeli government, whose policies can be criticized, but Israel as a people and as a nation, which is absolutely unacceptable," and that they "add to a long list of...

A local Kentucky newspaper published an opinion article accusing Republican Senate candidate Daniel Cameron, who is black, of being a race traitor. The Louisville-based newspaper, the Courier Journal, published a piece by contributor Ricky L. Jones titled “Daniel Cameron is KY’s saddest Republican Senate candidate,” which included a subheadline calling him “the polished corporate spokesman for anti-Black backlash politics.” Jones alleged Cameron’s campaign message is, “Don’t worry, I’ll protect the White status quo in Kentucky and beyond.” Opinion: Daniel Cameron is KY’s saddest Republican Senate candidate | Opinion https://t.co/qKcltpUwah — Courier Journal (@courierjournal) February 11, 2026 Jones calls Cameron the...

Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced. Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969. Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents. The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune. Tasheik Kerr, assistant to the city manager, said during a meeting...

A federal grand jury refused to hand up an indictment Tuesday against six Democratic lawmakers accused by President Trump of “seditious behavior” this past fall. DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro led the failed effort to indict Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Chris Deluzi (D-Pa.) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) over a video posted on social media this past November urging members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders.” *** Slotkin, who previously accused Trump of “directing the FBI to target us” and “weaponizing the federal government” against...

A kerfuffle ensued during the Detroit Pistons - Charlotte Hornets game after a foul was committed.

In an age of rage, it is often difficult to stand out in the mob as so many pander to the perpetually irate. However, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie has found a way to win the race to the bottom. In a posting on Bluesky, Bouie mocked the account of the addiction of the mother of Vice President J.D. Vance, saying that she should have sold her son for drugs. Bouie used Bluesky (the digital safe zone for the viewpoint intolerant on the left) to post one of the most reprehensible attacks on Vance. Bouie wrote that “this is...

The clip begins with Wu, who was born in China, saying, 'I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning.' 'Because we are the majority in this country now,' the congressman continued. 'We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone, and to make things fair, but the problem is our communities are divided - they're completely divided.'

Ah, yes, the weekend kicked off with the press and social media (the two growing more indistinguishable by the day) worked up into a lather over the fact that the president’s Truth Social account posted a “racist” video, portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady as animated apes. This serves as all the injection needed of political adrenaline for the braying resistance members to turn into howler monkeys, to keep with the primate theme. As is always the case, there is more to the story, but that will be intentionally overlooked by those agents of agitprop and...

The Associated Press (AP) accused several European nations competing in the Winter Olympics of having a lack of diversity on their teams, claiming they are “overwhelmingly white.”In an article from the AP, the outlet highlighted how “immigration from Africa and the Middle East has transformed the demographics of Europe in recent decades.” The outlet also noted that while the United States was “sending one of its most diverse teams,” the team rosters for countries such as France, Germany, and Switzerland “look a lot like Sweden’s: overwhelmingly white and lacking the immigrant representation.”“At the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Sweden is sending...

Having said that, the claim is going viral on the left, so you need to have your facts lined up to challenge your TDS-suffering friends and acquaintances. esterday, Donald Trump posted an interesting video on his social media about voting machine election fraud in 2020. This is obviously a topic dear to his heart. Moreover, as the investigations in Fulton County, Georgia, demonstrate, it’s still a very hot and important topic (making it all the more bizarre that Senate Republicans will not push the SAVE Act, which aligns with the bipartisan public desire for election integrity). That Trump would post...

On the eve of their trial, three men charged in the murder of Kevin Nishita have accepted plea deals in the case and will spend decades in prison.

These individuals are driven by strong emotions and a toxic sense of self-righteousness, which has led some to believe they can attack police with impunity—something Renee Good and Alex Pretti learned the hard way—or hurl racist slurs at non-white people. These officers are professionals; they won’t leave the city or be provoked. Instead, you’ll be recognized for revealing the fundamental flaws within white Democrats, a group that has historically been rotten. Minneapolis has been on fire since Good and Pretti were shot and killed by law enforcement for stupidly trying to impede their operations. They weren’t executed. But the deportations...

Donald Trump has posted a video on Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The clip, which he shared late last night, focuses on his accusations of fraud during the 2020 election. An AI video shows the faces of the former president and first lady imposed on the bodies of apes, followed by The Tokens' song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The clip belongs to a pro-Trump account on X but was reposted by the President on his Truth Social platform. Trump's latest swipe at the Obama family sparked widespread condemnation across the political divide. 'Disgusting behavior by the...

The White House is dismissing backlash over a meme video the president posted on Truth Social late Thursday depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as gorillas. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King,'” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.” *** The roughly one-minute video was mostly focused on claims of vote rigging in the 2020 election but showed AI-generated...

KANKAKEE COUNTY (WGN) — A suspect is in custody after he allegedly shot and killed a bar owner in Kankakee County on Monday morning. According to the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office, a 47-year-old man was apprehended as he left his Hammond, Indiana, home in the 6400 block of Rhode Island Avenue. He is currently being held in Indiana, where he awaits extradition back to Illinois. The deadly shooting unfolded inside of “The Line,” a bar located in rural Momence, near the Illinois-Indiana state line along Illinois Route 14, just before 11 a.m. According to police, officers were first called to...