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SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children in domestic-related shootings at different homes early Sunday, said Shreveport police chief Wayne Smith. The victims ranged in age from one to about 14 years old, Smith said. A total of 10 were people shot. The gunman later died after a chase with officers who fired at the suspect, Smith said. The suspect stole a car while leaving the scene of the shootings and was followed by police, according to Smith. Officials said they were still gathering details about the crime scene, which extended across three locations. Some of...

Five people were wounded in a mass shooting near the University of Iowa campus after a large brawl that broke out early Sunday, police confirmed — as they shared a photo of five “persons of interest” in the carnage.

GASTON, S.C. — Several agencies assisted in shutting down a large event in Lexington County on Saturday night after several people were trampled by horses, and members of a large crowd reportedly threw beer cans at first responders.Gaston Police Chief Stephen Watkins said police received reports of an emergency call around 8:30 p.m. Saturday to 491 S. Main St., where there were reports of people injured by horses at a rodeo event.Officers arrived at the scene with Lexington County Emergency Services and the Lexington County Fire Service, where they found several people had been trampled by stampeding horses that were...

The gunman accused of shooting eight young children dead in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday morning has been identified as Shamar Elkins. Elkins, 31, opened fire at a home in Shreveport during a domestic disturbance, former Caddo Parish Constable Patrick Young told the Daily Mail. The suspect, who was fatally shot by police during a vehicle chase, is accused of killing eight children, with the youngest being just 18 months old, the Shreveport Police Department said

Eight children were killed ​in a mass ‌shooting on Sunday in Shreveport, Louisiana. Shreveport Police Department spokesperson Christopher Bordelon told NBC that the ​victims ranged in age ​from 1 to 14​. According to Bordelon, the suspected gunman hijacked a car after ‌the ⁠shooting and was eliminated by police who opened fire...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday designed to limit how long athletes can play college sports and how often they can transfer between schools. The order directs the NCAA to create rules that mandate college athletes can play for "no more than a five-year period" and allows them to transfer schools only once before they graduate without having to sit out a season. The rule changes are scheduled to go into effect Aug. 1. A school that plays an athlete who doesn't meet these new limits could risk losing its federal funding. The order also states that the...

Multiple people have been reported injured in a possible mass shooting near the University of Iowa’s campus following a wild brawl early Sunday. Police were responding to a large fight at the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City at approximately 1:45 a.m. when arriving officers heard gunshots ring out, the Iowa City Police Department said. Dramatic video shared on social media captured dozens of people crowded around a brawl — as a group of men threw haymakers at each other. Separate clips caught people frantically running away from the gunshots. “At this time, multiple victims have been taken to area hospitals...

U.S. homicide patterns reflect a stark racial disparity, with violent crime disproportionately affecting white victims in black-on-white cases. Mugshot of Renotta Renee Seltzer (Escambia County Sheriff’s Office). My longtime VDARE.com colleague Kenn Gividen began his recent monthly roundup of America’s ongoing black-on-white Holocaust™ (27 dead reported in March 2026) with the news that the gay mayor of Providence, RI, had forced the removal, on the grounds that it was “divisive”—i.e., embarrassing to Democrats—of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old blonde Ukrainian murdered by a black repeat offender in August 2025. (Since Kenn posted, North Carolina authorities have found the...

A Department of Homeland Security employee was shot and stabbed to death while walking her dog in Atlanta on Monday, part of a series of attacks that killed another woman and critically wounded a homeless man. The 26-year-old suspect, a British-born man naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2022, has a prior criminal record and faces murder charges for attacks across the Atlanta area. Lauren Bullis was remembered by Homeland Security colleagues as warm, kind and compassionate, with a fellow auditor recalling: “You couldn’t meet her and not be her friend.”

Edmund Fitton-Brown @EFittonBrown Oh dear. Iskandar323 picked the wrong jurisdiction in which to become one of the world’s leading pro-Hamas propagandists. The #UAE takes a dim view of foreigners who abuse their hospitality by supporting terrorist groups. It would be a pity if the Emiratis learned his identity. Quote WikiBias @WikiBias · Mar 23 Investigations have revealed that Iskandar323, the recently banned editor, who worked to rewrite Jewish history and whitewash the Iranian regime and Hamas, is an English journalist based in the United Arab Emirates. Our eyes are wide open for all others. More to come.

As of early 2026, South Africa presents a textbook case of a failing state. In a chaotic break with civilization, it spirals inexorably downwards through synergistic failures of governance, infrastructure, and social cohesion. What was once heralded as the “rainbow nation” has devolved into a picture of systemic rot, where the post-apartheid promise of reconciliation, competence, and prosperity lies shattered under the weight of African National Congress (ANC) misrule. Decades after the last session of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the noble intentions appear to be largely forgotten. What is more, they are actively repudiated by a political elite that...

A courageous Michigan gas station clerk helped save a teenage girl who was abducted by a gun-toting stranger with a history of rape allegations while walking to her school bus stop. The creep kidnapped the 16-year-old girl at gunpoint just after 7 a.m. Monday in Hamtramck, while she was waiting for her school bus, Hamtramck Police Chief Hussein Farhat told WXYZ. Roughly 30 minutes later, the unidentified suspect brought the girl to a Sunoco gas station, where he asked for cigarettes and told the terrified teen to pay for them, the outlet reported. “When he ask her to pay for...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife Dr. Cerina Fairfax before he killed himself inside their Northern Virginia home, police confirmed Thursday morning. Police said the couple was going through a divorce. Shortly after midnight on April 16, Fairfax County police officers responded to the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive, where they discovered the bodies of an adult male and an adult female inside the home, Captain Chris Cosgriff said. Investigators believe Justin Fairfax man shot Cerina Fairfax before turning the gun on himself in what police described as a domestic incident....

The same civilization that produced the scientific method, actuarial science, and data-driven medicine now treats the act of noticing statistical trends as a moral failing — provided those trends involve race. Welcome to the cognitive dissonance Olympics, where your lying eyes are always the problem, and the scoreboard is considered hate speech. Pattern recognition is not a political act. It is how your brain keeps you alive. Doctors diagnose disease with it. Generals anticipate attacks through it. Every competent investor in the history of capital markets has made money using it. Information theory research estimates that human senses gather roughly...

Imagine that a Republican seeks his party's endorsement for the U.S. House of Representatives, despite having been allied with a white supremacist organization just a decade earlier. Imagine that this candidate had once sarcastically proposed setting aside certain states for white citizens and had shared a stage with a speaker known for excoriating Jews as "bloodsuckers." You're right. That man wouldn't get his party's endorsement. He would probably want to go into hiding after the howl of negative media coverage. So how did we get Keith Ellison? State Rep. Keith Ellison of Minneapolis is the DFL-endorsed candidate for the Fifth...

@elonmusk South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!

A video showing a Fairfield homeowner fighting off a home invader may cause “concern” as it circulates on social media, police said Saturday. The video depicts a resident of the 1700 block of Burbank Court using a shovel to battle the intruder on Tuesday before police arrived. Police praised “the actions of the homeowner, who worked to protect his family while officers were responding to the scene.” A man later identified as 30-year-old Jason Nichols attempted to break into the residence occupied by a woman and child by kicking the front door, police said. When that failed, he gained entry...

A North Carolina woman played a prank on her convicted felon boyfriend that made him believe she cheated on him - but it backfired horribly after he took her seriously. Shyhied Ivey, 20, shot at a packed car with five people inside on April 5 in Charlotte after his girlfriend, Nevaeh Covington, decided to pretend that she was romantically involved with another man, according to an affidavit reviewed by the Daily Mail. Officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to Columbus Circle after being dispatched over a report of assault with a deadly weapon just after midnight. Covington told police...

US intelligence indicates China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, CNN reported late on Friday, citing three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments. According to intelligence outlined in the CNN report, Beijing is preparing to transfer shoulder-fired anti-air missile systems known as MANPADs. These systems pose an asymmetric threat to low-flying US military aircraft, as demonstrated during the five-week war, and they could continue to do so if the ceasefire breaks down. Two sources informed CNN that there are signs Beijing is attempting to route shipments of the weaponry through third...

For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community.Then suddenly, one set charged the other, touching off yearslong bloodshed that researchers are comparing to a human civil war.“It was just chaos,” said John Mitani, a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Michigan who had been following the chimpanzees for two decades when the violence began in 2015. “They started to scream, shout, chase each other.”For three years after the outbreak, Mitani and his collaborator, Aaron Sandel, an associate professor of anthropology at...