Virginia police said a meat cleaver attack in Virginia left a scene described as a “bloodbath” after they shot and killed the alleged attacker.

Fairfax County Police responded to a call Monday from inside a residence at the Margate Manor apartment complex in Mantua, as well as from a neighbor.

‘I can’t imagine anything would compel anyone to butcher a family.’

The alleged attacker was described as a man in his fifties who used a 10-inch knife similar to a meat cleaver to attack his wife as well as his daughter, according to Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis.

The man’s son-in-law was outside clearing snow from the top of his car when he heard the commotion coming from inside the residence, according to police.

When he responded, he found his father-in-law stabbing his wife and then turning to attack the son-in-law.

Davis said officers found the man attacking the son-in-law when they arrived, and he ignored commands to stop.

“Our officer gave repeated commands — one after another after another — to this perpetrator, the father-in-law, to drop the knife, drop the knife,” he said. “Not only does he not drop the knife, but he proceeds to stab the son-in-law.”

An officer opened fire on the man and killed him.

All three victims were transported to a hospital, where the two women were later declared dead. The injured son-in-law remains in critical condition.

Police also found a child in the residence, but the 1-year-old baby of the younger couple was unharmed. The baby is under the care of child protective services while police seek to identify family members.

“To describe this scene as bloody would be an understatement,” Davis said.

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Davis said there had been no previous domestic violence calls at the residence, or any other calls. He defended the actions of his officer and said the bodycam footage supported that he followed use-of-force policies.

Police have not yet released the names of the alleged assailant or of the victims.

“We don’t know yet what turmoil, what strife is happening in their lives, but I can’t imagine anything would compel anyone to butcher a family,” Davis added.

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The Trump administration has rescinded the Obama administration’s 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding for gases such as carbon dioxide. You may now exhale without worrying that the carbon dioxide in your breath will contribute to global warming.

After all, with 8.3 billion people on the planet exhaling an average of 2.3 pounds of CO2 per person per day, roughly 9.5 million tons of CO2 are respired into the atmosphere daily. That is a lot of hot air — literally.

If you have been holding your breath while waiting for more sensible environmental regulations that focus on both people and the planet, you may now breathe easier.

Fortunately, plants use the air we exhale. It is part of the life cycle that sustains a healthy biosphere. Add the full carbon cycle — in which carbon is sequestered and released throughout the living and nonliving components of the global ecosystem — and a natural balance is generally maintained.

The serious question has been whether human activity, especially the increasing use of fossil fuels since the late 1800s, has tipped that balance.

The major “consensus science” conclusions tied to the endangerment finding include the confident assertion that modern climate change can be attributed to people burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. According to one professional organization, these human-caused changes “are larger and faster than any humanity is known to have endured over the last 10,000 years.” The same view also holds that many harmful impacts already under way will intensify and outweigh any benefits.

Yet another perspective deserves consideration. One of the greatest forces lifting people out of poverty has been the burning of fossil fuels. The progression from coal to oil to natural gas — along with advances in pollution controls — has helped produce dramatically higher living standards in societies that use their energy resources well.

Arguably, the human-caused improvements in comfort, productivity, and longevity made possible by fossil fuels are also “larger and faster than any humanity is known to have [enjoyed] over the last 10,000 years.”

As for harmful impacts, the rhetorical pattern often looks familiar: find an extraordinary weather event and blame it on anthropogenic global warming. Extreme heat? Human activity. Extreme cold — as the United States recently experienced? Human activity again.

At least most scientists acknowledge that positive effects exist. These include substantial increases in global vegetation and the advantages of warmer temperatures over colder ones for human well-being and development.

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Any honest assessment of climate change and its effects on people, infrastructure, and the natural world should weigh both benefits and harms. Complex systems demand that kind of accounting.

The current retraction of the endangerment finding will be a particular breath of fresh air for the auto industry. In essence, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that it “lacks statutory authority under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act to prescribe standards for [greenhouse gas] emissions” from “new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines.”

According to the EPA:

As a result of these changes, engine and vehicle manufacturers no longer have any future obligations for the measurement, control, and reporting of [greenhouse gas] emissions for any highway engine and vehicle, including model years manufactured prior to this final rule. This final action is only related to [greenhouse gas] emissions and does not affect regulations on any traditional air pollutants. Rather, this action realigns EPA’s regulatory framework with the best reading of the CAA, which does not authorize EPA to regulate [greenhouse gas] emissions from new motor vehicles.

As the agency notes, traditional health-based air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ground-level ozone, particulate matter, lead, and carbon monoxide — not CO2 — are unaffected by this EPA action.

So if you have been holding your breath while waiting for more sensible environmental regulations that focus on both people and the planet, you may now breathe easier.

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally at American Thinker.

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The alien debate has taken a turn after former president Barack Obama casually stated in an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen that aliens are “real” — but they’re not where the public may believe them to be.

“Are aliens real?” Cohen asked Obama on “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen.”

“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,” Obama told Cohen, before adding that “they’re not being kept in … Area 51.”

“There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States,” he said.

However, while Obama confirmed the existence of aliens, President Donald Trump went on to criticize the former president’s admission.

“He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that, you know. I don’t know if they’re real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake,” Trump replied when asked about Obama’s claims by a reporter.

While Trump’s initial reaction was not to discuss Obama’s admission, he then went on to announce on Truth Social that he would be releasing government files on aliens to the public.

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump wrote in his post.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is thrilled that both Obama and Trump seem to be alluding to the existence of aliens as a fact — and that the public may soon finally know what’s really out there.

“We now have a former president who has said, ‘Yes, aliens are real, but they’re not at Area 51.’ And now we have a current president saying, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have shared that; that’s classified information.’ It feels like we now have two presidents, two people who would know, admitting that aliens exist,” Gonzales comments.

“It feels a whole lot like Donald Trump let it slip,” she adds.

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Actor Chris Hemsworth said he moved his family back to Australia from Los Angeles partly because the film industry is no longer operating in the California metropolis.

The “Thor” star made the comments while a guest on the “SmartLess” podcast with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett.

‘You know when you come back from work, you wanna go on a holiday? Like, coming home for me is — it feels like a holiday.’

“It was right around the time my boys were born, and it was just, we kind of were set up in L.A. and not enjoying it, you know? Like, nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else,” he explained.

The film industry has been on the decline in Los Angeles, as movie theater productions take advantage of tax incentives offered by other states and countries.

The 42-year-old went on to say the move to Australia was the “greatest decision” he’s ever made.

“You’d come home and paparazzi and all the sort of the trappings of, you know, living in that space,” he added.

He also complained that living in Los Angeles meant they lived far too close to their neighbors.

“You know when you come back from work, you wanna go on a holiday? Like, coming home for me is — it feels like a holiday. We have a big farm and horses and motorbikes and surf,” he added.

He described his own idyllic childhood in Australia as part of the reason he was inspired to become an actor.

“It was just all bush land and rainforest sort of set up around us,” he said. “And so we would just [have] … outdoors adventures and playing different characters. And I think that’s, to be honest, where the sort of intrigue or interest into that transportation into another.”

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President Donald Trump threatened to put a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the U.S. in order to boost the film industry in California.

“California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit!” Trump wrote in Sept. 2025. “Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.”

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As Mexico continues to burn in the wake of the capture and death of a major drug cartel leader, one Canadian politician is being ridiculed for her bizarre response.

Parts of Puerto Vallarta went up in blazes after authorities said Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes was killed during an operation by the Mexican army in Tapalpa, Jalisco.

‘I trust the cartel has taken the appropriate DEI training to respond appropriately.’

While many lawmakers have expressed concern for their constituents who were caught up in the Mexican conflagration, House of Commons member Heather McPherson was especially worried about “2SLGBTQIA+” people.

“Many Canadians, especially members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, are in Puerto Vallarta, where violence has quickly escalated. A shelter-in-place order is in effect,” McPherson wrote in a post Sunday on social media.

“Please stay vigilant and consult the Government of Canada travel advisories for Mexico,” she added.

The expanded woke acronym refers to two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual people.

Many online scolded McPherson for focusing on the gender identity agenda when Canadians were under potentially lethal threat in Mexico.

“Can you meet with and pressure the Mexican cartel terror groups to be 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive?” journalist Andy Ngo responded.

“Why ‘especially members of the 2SLGBTQIA+’? Do you value their lives more than the rest of the alphanumeric digit lives out there because you hope they’ll vote for you?” journalist Dahlia Kurtz replied.

“Not progressive enough! Next time I want a land acknowledgement before hitting the trans button please,” documentarian Tim Thielmann said.

“I trust the cartel has taken the appropriate DEI training to respond appropriately,” activist Eva Chipiuk joked.

“How are those Canadians in PV different from non-alphabet Canadians in PV? Why are you like this?” another popular response reads.

“My mother is in Mexico right now, which I confirmed last night, is safe, not someone you’d care about because she’s not part of your alphabet gang. Do you see how dumb your post is?” another detractor said.

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“WTH, you should delete this post, many Albertans are in Mexico and may be stranded regardless of sexual preference! This is not a time for politics it is a time for unity towards all stranded Albertans,” another user said.

Cervantes, the founder of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, controlled a vast criminal organization that specialized in smugging cocaine, methamphetamines, fentanyl, and illegal aliens into the U.S. His death leaves a power vacuum that is unlikely to be resolved without further bloodshed.

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Rob Reiner’s 32-year-old son Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of his parents in December, the Associated Press reported.

Nick Reiner’s attorney, Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene, entered the plea on her client’s behalf as he stood “behind glass in an enclosed custody area of the packed Los Angeles courtroom,” the AP said.

‘We will be looking at all aggravating and mitigating circumstances.’

Nick Reiner has been held without bail since his arrest after his famed Hollywood director father and his mother, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead Dec. 14 at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the AP said.

The outlet added that Reiner appeared in court with his head shaved and wearing brown jail clothes — but notably not the suicide prevention smock he donned in his first court appearance in December.

The judge told Reiner to return to court April 29 for the scheduling of a preliminary hearing where prosecutors will present evidence — and a judge will decide if there’s enough of it to proceed to trial, the AP said.

RELATED: Nick Reiner will be charged with murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner: Prosecutors

District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his office hasn’t decided if it will seek the death penalty for Reiner, the AP said.

Hochman added that the death penalty decision “goes through a very rigorous process. We will be looking at all aggravating and mitigating circumstances,” the outlet noted.

Notably, Reiner’s not guilty plea is common for criminal defendants at this stage of a case, the AP said.

Reiner’s high-powered former attorney, Alan Jackson, said last month he had to quit the case due to “circumstances beyond our control — but more importantly beyond Nick’s control.”

Jackson added at the time that he was “legally and ethically prohibited from explaining all the reasons why” he withdrew from the case but noted that he and his team “remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick Reiner and his best interests.”

Jackson also told reporters that “we’re not just convinced — we know — that the legal process will reveal the true facts of the circumstances surrounding this case, Nick’s case” and that “we’ve investigated this matter top to bottom, back to front. What we’ve learned — and you can take this to the bank — is that pursuant to the laws of this state, pursuant to the law in California, Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder. Print that! Print that!”

Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian said Monday that his office is still awaiting a full autopsy report in the case, but all other evidence has been turned over to the defense, the AP noted.

Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, died from “multiple sharp force injuries,” the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said in initial findings, the outlet also reported, adding that authorities said they were killed hours before the bodies were discovered.

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