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The gunman who opened fire on a Jewish man walking to synagogue in Chicago is an illegal migrant from West Africa who was released into the US last year — and he targeted the victim because of his faith, law enforcement sources tell The Post. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22 — who hails from Mauritania — crossed into San Diego in March 2023 and was screened by border agents, who quickly released him into the US, officials said. Federal investigators believe Abdallahi was specifically targeting Jews in an antisemitic attack when he ambushed a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man in the city’s...

Last year, Alexis Byrd started a new job she was really excited for.Byrd, who lives in Detroit, landed an HR job in the logistics space. Though the job was remote, she was asked to commute an hour into the office for her first week of onboarding.No big deal, Byrd thought — she was greeted at the office with flowers and welcoming colleagues.By her third day, however, her manager told her she would actually be expected to commute into the office three times a week. Not only that, Byrd was to drive to the company's two other worksites twice a week,...

Three people are recovering after being attacked by a swarm of bees in a San Diego community earlier this week. One of the victims was reportedly stung hundreds of times. A Ring camera video captured the chaos after a swarm of bees attacked a woman at Fairbrook Park in Scripps Ranch. “A woman who was kind of stumbling down the street, and I mean engulfed in bees, like a foot in front of her, back all over head to toe,” said Dana Meerschart, who called 911. Meerschart said she saw the aftermath of the attack and rushed to try to...

The beauty of baseball is there’s always a first we haven’t seen before, and here we go again. Tuesday night’s game between the Houston Astros and San Diego Padres couldn’t have been more filled with drama, and then when we got to the ninth inning, things started to overflow when Houston superstar Jose Altuve was up to bat with two outs and a runner on second base. The game was tied 3-3 at the time. Squaring off against San Diego relief pitcher Robert Suarez, Altuve knocked what originally appeared to be a grounder to third to put an end to...

Does San Diego, California have a 'Hamas' problem? No, not the ignorant student protestors at universities being directed by Hamas's proxies. No, not the terrorists rolling into the area from Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's open border. They may be seeing actual tunnels, dug by Hamas itself or its clients the Mexican cartels, coming in through Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol has discovered more than 200 of them since 2003, according to the Department of Customs & Border Protection. The most recent one found, that there's any news on, at least, was a 2022 Tijuana-to-San Diego tunnel , complete with...

Are the Harris-Biden open borders now Latin-Americanizing the U.S.?That's what it looks like with this heinous and underreported incident in San Diego's back county not far from the U.S.-Mexico border:Illegals are now trying to force their way onto our kids’ school buses. https://t.co/PaD4dMlcyd — Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) August 29, 2024 According to a joint local Fox 5/KUSI report, which appear to be the only major outlets reporting this:JAMUL, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Two school bus routes within the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District have been briefly interrupted over the last two days after migrants attempted to board them, according to...

When it gets hot, Southern California can become a furnace, and when wildfires start, it becomes a literal furnace. Because of these wildires, local residents pay high homeowner insurance rates, when they can get any at all, and accept strict regulations about clearing brush and not starting open flames on broiling hot dry days. But as fire season kicks in through October, the desert badlands of San Diego County near the border nevertheless are seeing wildfires, lots of wildfires, all because under the Harris-Biden administration, the border is still wide open. Now we have the receipts. According to East County...

The San Diego Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to support 14 bills making their way through the California legislature to provide reparations for slavery, even though California entered the Union in 1850 as a free state. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported: The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to support a series of bills making their way through the California Legislature that would provide reparations to Black people who have been harmed by systemic racism and other inequities. … Supervisor Joel Anderson was the lone no vote. … “If we wanted to go through our history, there isn’t...

A fed-up California Democratic state senator has revealed she is jumping ship to the Republican Party because her now-former party has become unrecognizable under its current leadership and policies. State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, a longtime Democrat, broke news of her defection late Thursday, saying the values she shared with the Democratic Party when she was elected in 2022 have now shifted. “In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to,” the lawmaker said during an appearance on Fox News. “The Democratic Party is not the party that...

The wall of the California Democrat supermajority has sprung a major leak. Democrat State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, who has recently conflicted with the majority of her party within the legislature, is now switching her party affiliation to Republican. Alvarado-Gil represents Senate District 4, which encompasses parts of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties. She was first elected to her seat in the state senate in 2022 and is up for reelection in 2026.

Confidential sources inside the State Capitol confirm to the Globe that California State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil is leaving the Democrat Party and switching her party affiliation to Republican. Alvarado-Gil has been a very interesting lawmaker to watch in committees and on the Senate Floor. She’s not been afraid to confront progressives in her party on important issues like education and crime – issues which leave voters in the state questioning how Democrats can be so tone deaf to the state’s failing schools and escalating crime issues. In 2023, Senate Bill 832, by Senator Brian Jones (R-San Diego)to help prevent the...

AN DIEGO - A human trafficking sting conducted during San Diego Comic-Con resulted in the recovery of ten victims and the arrest of 14 individuals. The operation, which took place from July 25 to 27, 2024, was led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force (SDHTTF), targeted sex traffickers and buyers using the San Diego Comic-Con Convention to seek out potential victims. The sting was part of a broader effort to target sex traffickers and buyers who exploit large events like Comic-Con, which attracts over 100,000 attendees each year. The operation aimed to...

ans at the "Simpsons" panel at San Diego Comic-Con received an unexpected surprise Saturday when creator Matt Groening shared a video from Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a self-described "superfan" of the series. In the clip, Harris laughed and said, "We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom" -- a quote from the Oct. 1996 episode "Treehouse of Horror VII," which originally aired before the election between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. The appearance was fitting. In recent days, social media users have compared Harris to Lisa Simpson, and in particular the...

San Diego’s mayor announced July 17 a lease deal to convert a commercial building near the city’s airport into a 1,000-bed homeless shelter and resource center, but the city’s budget analyst raised concerns over the cost.“For years, past mayors and city councils have only engaged in ad-hoc, piecemeal, temporary approaches to addressing homelessness,” Mayor Todd Gloria said in a statement. “With this proposal, we are looking to deliver the change that San Diegans want to see with regard to addressing homelessness on our streets.”The 30-year lease, which awaits approval from the city council on July 22, includes a cost of...

The Biden administration has been flying migrants from California, which is being overrun, to Texas — where Gov. Greg Abbott’s tough border control measures have deterred illegal crossings into the state, The Post can reveal. For the last month, pricey Border Patrol charter flights on commercial-sized planes have been hauling border crossers from San Diego to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, sources told The Post. Sources say the flights, which have been operating every week, cost an estimated $80,000 and are known for being “extremely expensive.” Photos also show dozens of migrants shackled by the ankles boarding the planes, which are...

In 1915, the city of San Diego was in the midst of a drought, and it was willing to do just about anything... They'd heard tales of this "rain man," Charles Hatfield, so they enlisted his help to fill the reservoir with rainwater.Hatfield was so confident he could bring rain to the parched city that he secured a deal but agreed only to accept money for each inch of rain that he produced: $1,000 per inch, to be exact, up to 50 inches. For the council, this was a perfect deal. If Hatfield was a charlatan and produced no rain,...

Eight of eleven people indicted in connection with a 2021 Pacific Beach protest that turned violent received sentences Friday ranging from six months to two years in custody....Prosecutors contended the defendants converged on San Diego under the banner of antifa... and while clad in tactical gear proceeded to pepper spray, beat, throw objects at, and use Tasers on various people....The case was believed to be the first criminal conspiracy prosecution in the country against anti-fascist protesters...

A wave of San Diego beaches have been shut down following a disgusting discovery in the water. City health officials released an updated advisory and closure list of beaches due to sewage creating frighteningly high levels of bacteria in the open waters. Water contact closures were issued for Silver Strand Shoreline, Imperial Beach Shorelines, and the Tijuana Slough Shoreline, along the U.S, Mexico border.Advisories were issued for the La Jolla, Children's Pool, Coronado, Coronado Lifeguard Tower, the Ocean Beach, Dog Beach, the San Diego River outlet, Mission Bay, North Cove, and Vacation Isle. In Imperial Beach, the number one dirtiest...

As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall, one challenge is that some of the bluest parts of the country — cities on the West Coast — are a mess. Centrist voters can reasonably ask: Why put liberals in charge nationally when the places where they have greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime and dysfunction? I’ll try to answer that question in a moment, but liberals like me do need to face the painful fact that something has gone badly wrong where we’re in charge, from San Diego to Seattle. ...the truth is that too...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH Liberal hypocrites who usually defend vandalism now want 5 years in prison for vandals who vandalized a pride mural. I support this punishment, but I also support it for anyone who deliberately breaks a window or sprays graffiti. https://krem.com/article/news/local/arrests-wednesday-at-newly-painted-pride-crosswalk-mural/293-57722e04-0df0-4484-856e-fed3d7a37c23 #Woke #LGBTQ #Crime