Cellphone video caught the moment when a motorist hit a teenager in the parking lot of a South Carolina Dollar Tree store on Mother’s Day, then plowed through the store wall — with the teen still on the hood of the car.

Miraculously, the victim quickly emerged from the rubble and walked away, apparently as if the impact was nothing. You can view the cellphone video here.

‘Youth these days … don’t value life.’

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said a fight involving two adults and three juveniles began in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on Sumter Highway in Bishopville, WIS-TV reported. Bishopville is a little less than an hour northeast of Columbia.

Authorities said a 17-year-old hit a 15-year-old with a vehicle before crashing into the store, the station noted, adding that the driver reportedly rolled the car away from the store and crashed into an occupied vehicle in the parking lot.

WIS said the 15-year-old hit by the car was not seriously hurt.

Deputies said 19-year-old Celvin Hickman and 24-year-old Shamirah Blyther were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in connection with the brawl, the station reported, adding that Hickman also was charged with malicious injury to property.

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The three juveniles also were arrested, the sheriff’s office told WIS.

The 17-year-old accused of driving the car that crashed into the store was charged with attempted murder, disorderly conduct, and malicious injury to property, the station said, adding that authorities said the 17-year-old will be charged as an adult.

Another 15-year-old also was charged with disorderly conduct and released to guardians, WIS said.

Blaze News spoke with an employee of a business just down the street from where the calamity went down. The employee — who spoke to Blaze News on the condition of anonymity — said the harrowing incident has made people “look at Bishopville a little differently.”

“I did have one guy who said he’s afraid to come back down here,” the employee told Blaze News, adding that a lot of people shop in the area, which police consistently patrol.

“It’s crazy that it happened right there,” the employee added to Blaze News.

Sheriff Daniel Simon in the aftermath told WIS that some “youth these days … don’t value life.” Simon added to the station that the driver who hit the 15-year-old with the car “used the vehicle as a weapon. You might as well pull out a gun … and pull the trigger.”

WIS said the store is closed for now and that there’s about $10,000 in damages.

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A life-size bronze statue of first lady Melania Trump in her native Slovenia has gone missing after someone apparently hacked it off at the ankles and took it away.

Police spokeswoman Alenka Drenik Rangus said on Friday that they were notified about the theft on Tuesday and had been working to identify who was responsible.

The original statue was made of wood and appeared in July 2019 but was destroyed in July 2020 when it was set ablaze in an apparent protest against Trump.

The Associated Press cited Slovenian news reports that said the statue had been sawed off at the ankles. Photographs appeared to show the stumps left over from the incident.

The original statue was made of wood and appeared in July 2019 but was destroyed in July 2020 when it was set ablaze in an apparent protest against Trump. A U.S.-based artist named Brad Downey then cast a bronze statue to replace the wooden one.

Downey had previously said that the art piece was intentionally political in nature, and he criticized the first lady for having her immigration to the U.S. fast-tracked while others had to wait.

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Some of the locals told the New York Times that the incident could have been vandalism or could have been theft in order to melt down the statue for cash.

Others have previously said they didn’t appreciate the statue very much, and they reiterated that opinion after the statue’s disappearance.

“I think no one was really proud at this statue, not even the first lady of the USA,” said Franja Kranjc, who works at a bakery in Sevnica. “So I think it’s OK that it’s removed.”

“The image of the U.S. first lady was not something anyone was proud of,” said Sevnica authorities to BBC News.

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The U.S. Secret Service reportedly paid a visit to former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey over an image he posted on social media that many took as a threat against the president.

Secret Service agents escorted Comey to their Washington field office in Washington, D.C., on Friday for an interview, according to law enforcement sources who spoke to CNN. Comey was questioned about allegations that a message reading “8647” was a call for violence against President Donald Trump, the 47th president of the U.S.

‘We are aware of the social media posts by the former FBI director, and we take rhetoric like this very seriously.’

Comey posted the image of a number of seashells arranged to spell “8647” on Thursday, but he later deleted the post and claimed that he did not intend to advocate for any political violence.

The former FBI director appeared voluntarily for the interview and was not in custody, according to the CNN report.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi released a statement about the incident.

“The Secret Service vigorously investigates anything that can be taken as a potential threat against our protectees,” said Guglielmi to CNN. “We are aware of the social media posts by the former FBI director, and we take rhetoric like this very seriously. Beyond that, we do not comment on protective intelligence matters.”

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and current FBI Director Kash Patel issued statements saying that the Comey seashell threat would be investigated.

RELATED: Secret Service reportedly investigated elementary school teacher’s reply to assassination post after Trump won election

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The president also lambasted Comey in a comment on Fox News.

“He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant? That meant assassination,” said Trump to Bret Baier.

“And it says it loud and clear,” Trump added. “Now, he wasn’t very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant, and he did it for a reason. And he was hit so hard because people like me, and they like what’s happening with our country. Our country’s become respected again. And he’s calling for the assassination of the president.”

The term “86” has been in use for more than a century and could refer to the action of taking something off of a menu at a restaurant, but more recently it has also included killing something or someone.

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The U.S. Supreme Court granted a temporary motion on Friday to pause deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 based on the lack of due process given to migrants.

The 7-2 ruling was issued unsigned, but Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas publicly dissented from the majority.

Alito dissented on the basis that the court had ‘no authority to issue any relief’ so early in the litigation process.

The lawsuit was filed by a group of Venezuelans from North Texas who were accused by the government of being gang members and thereby eligible for deportation without due process.

The court rejected a motion from the Trump administration to allow them to continue the deportation proceedings, and ruled that the government had not given the migrants the due process to challenge the deportations.

The ruling cited the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where the administration said they had no power to return the man, despite admitting that his deportation was due to a clerical error.

The Supreme Court said that “the detainees’ interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty,” given that the Trump administration had been “unable to provide for the return of an individual deported in error to a prison in El Salvador.”

Alito dissented on the basis that the court had “no authority to issue any relief” so early in the litigation process.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union argue that the detained migrants were not notified by the government in a language that they understand and were not notified of their rights, nor given enough time to exercise their rights.

The Supreme Court had unanimously ruled in April that migrants needed to be allowed due process to challenge deportation proceedings.

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Defenders of the use of the 1798 law say that the scale of the millions of deportations needed to alleviate the immigration crisis is so great that due process cannot be granted to each migrant to be deported. Critics of the administration say due process is necessary to protect against mistaken deportations, as well as to allow suspects to challenge the designation and prove their innocence.

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Move over, ayahuasca.

The hottest new drug among the beautiful people doesn’t require a shaman or a week at a posh jungle resort.

Uncut ovulation … is said to induce feelings of mental clarity, attractiveness, heightened sexual desire, and overall well-being.

Instead, all you need is a set of XX chromosomes.

More and more women are ignoring Big Pharma’s shrill “Just Say No” scare tactics and tripping out on their own natural fertility cycles.

The latest acolyte to admit it is pop star Lorde. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the “Royals” singer described going off the pill in 2023, after taking it since she was 15 years old.

“I hadn’t ovulated in 10 years,” said Lorde. “And when I ovulated for the first time, I cannot describe to you how crazy it was. One of the best drugs I’ve ever done.”

Uncut ovulation — the period midway through a woman’s menstrual cycle during which the ovaries release an egg for potential fertilization — is said to induce feelings of mental clarity, attractiveness, heightened sexual desire, and overall well-being in those who regularly experience it.

Still, the New Zealand-born artist admitted she still grapples with residual shame about participating in a practice that has been linked to the Trump administration’s MAHA mandate.

“I’ve now come to see my decision was maybe some quasi right-wing programming.”

Such misgivings are a common occurrence in those with strict liberal upbringings.

In many traditionally “sex-positive,” Planned Parenthood-going communities, women who decline to disrupt their natural cycles with powerful and unpredictable synthetic hormones are often seen as a threat to “reproductive freedom.”

Here are some other famous female faces who’ve opened up about getting off on not chemically neutering themseves!

Annie Murphy

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First prescribed the pill “no questions asked” at 16, the “Schitt’s Creek” star eventually realized it had been causing intense mood swings for years. “I would have goblin days where I just didn’t even recognize myself; I was feeling really, really sad, really down, really anxious.”

Hailey Baldwin Bieber

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The model, socialite, and wife of Justin Bieber stopped taking the pill after she had to be hospitalized for a “mini-stroke” in 2022 at age 25. She later took to the media to share a valuable lesson: “Having a stroke is a potential side effect from birth control pills.”

Natalie Portman

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In a speech at her alma mater Harvard’s 2015 graduation ceremony, the actress recalled some “pretty dark moments” during her own student days, thanks in part to “birth-control pills that have since been taken off the market for their depressive side effects.”

Khloé Kardashian

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The protein popcorn mogul went off the pill in 2017 after a doctor told her she had fewer ovarian follicles — key markers of fertility — than healthy women her age.

Nicole Bendayan

The Washington Post

The health and nutrition influencer was prescribed hormonal birth control at 16 but eventually stopped after years of doctors dismissing her concerns about side effects she was experiencing. “I would get yeast infections almost every month, recurring UTIs, feelings of anxiety and depression, low libido, and in the last three or four years I would bleed after sex … every single time.”

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Music legend Kid Rock roasted Bruce Springsteen Thursday, then identified a possible contributing cause of America’s low fertility rate.

Fox News’ Jesse Watters confronted Rock with
footage from Springsteen’s Wednesday concert in Manchester, England, where the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer badmouthed the Trump administration and the president.

“The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times,” said Springsteen. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about — that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years — is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.”

The geriatric rocker, whose
preferred candidate for president lost in an electoral landslide last year, urged his foreign audience to “rise with us” against “authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.”

Springsteen kept complaining and lecturing his audience over the course of his performance, declaring, for instance, that “they’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society,” and “they’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom,”
reported CBS News.

When speaking with Watters about a sample of Springsteen’s polemics, Rock expressed doubt over whether the liberal musician would similarly slam the president at a show stateside and questioned his relative quality.

‘Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics.’

“Let’s break it down. Pound for pound, when it comes to heartland rock and roll, Bruce Springsteen’s made some good songs, I’ll give him that. Bob Seger
smokes him any day of the week in my book,” said Rock. “Bruce Springsteen is another one of these liberals who has mountains of money that so desperately wants to keep his good standing in the eyes of Hollywood and the elite but plays like this working-class guy.”

“His politics are so ass-backwards — just stay in Europe, Bruce,” added Rock.

Watters quipped, “Maybe ‘The Boss’ should go by ‘The Employee’ next time.”

President Donald Trump exercised less restraint than Rock in his response to the liberal performer’s rant.

“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” Trump
wrote on Truth Social. “Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country.”

‘It all made sense.’

Toward the end of his message, the president leaned harder into his insults, writing, “Springsteen is ‘dumb as a rock'” — a “dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) [who] ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.”

Later in the segment, Watters pressed Rock on the kinds of people he sees at his concerts, asking specifically, “Do you ever see anybody with blue hair, armpit hair — female armpit hair?”

RELATED: Kid Rock gets brutally honest with Glenn Beck about ‘cowboy culture,’ politics, and how to be an American ‘bad***’

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“Listen, I was just watching your clips, and you know — we have this low birth rate in America, and it all made sense,” said Rock.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
revealed in a report last month that the fertility rate, only slightly higher than the record-low set in 2023, now sits at 1.6 births per woman over her lifetime. By way of contrast, in 1960, the U.S. rate was 3.7. The rate necessary for a population to maintain stability and replenish itself without requiring replacement by foreign nationals is 2.1.

“It just hit me right now because who’s going to sleep with these ugly ass, broke, crazy, deranged, [Trump derangement syndrome], liberal women?” continued Rock. “I mean, you look at these rallies, it’s like a bunch of women that no guy wants to sleep with and a bunch of dudes that want to sleep with each other.”

Rock recently sat down with Blaze Media co-founder
Glenn Beck for a wide-ranging nearly hour-long conversation touching various topics including Cybertrucks, Diddy, problems with Ticketmaster, and the ways that Gen X may save us all from the “pussification of America.” Watch the full episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast” featuring Kid Rock below:

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Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said he was shutting down the bureau’s offices in Washington, D.C., and relocating 1,500 FBI employees to other offices.

Patel made the announcement during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the “Sunday Morning Futures” show. He explained in a released preview video that having so much of the bureau’s workforce in the capital did not make sense.

‘When we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say we want to work at the FBI because we want to fight violent crime.’

“This FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce,” said Patel.

The iconic headquarters of the FBI was first proposed in 1939, but the construction and approval were delayed for many decades. The first employees moved to the completed building in 1974 and the last employees moved in 1977. President Richard Nixon named the building after J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, after his death in 1970.

“The FBI is 38,000 when we are fully manned, which we are not. In the national capital region in the 50-mile radius around Washington, D.C., there were 11,000 FBI employees. That’s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn’t happen here,” Patel concluded.

“So we are taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus-up,” he added. “And I think when we do things like that, we inspire folks in America to become intel analysts and agents and say, ‘We want to work at the FBI because we want to fight violent crime, and we want to be sent out into the country to do it.'”

He said that he hadn’t planned on making the announcement on the show and added that the move would be implemented over the next three to nine months.

“We want the American men and women to know if you’re going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world,” Patel concluded, “we’re going to give you a building that’s commensurate with that, and that’s not this place.”

RELATED: DHS, FBI investigating deleted seashell post from former FBI Director James Comey appearing to threaten Trump

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser with President Donald Trump. Photo by Annabelle Gordon for the Washington Post via Getty Images

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a statement maintaining that it was important to keep the FBI in the capital.

“Having the FBI headquarters in our nation’s capital and near the Department of Justice keeps America safer,” said Bowser.

“The District and our region have many sites where the FBI can fulfill their mission in safe, modern, and secure facilities, and we are ready to help them find both temporary leases and a permanent home,” she added. “A safe and beautiful D.C. requires a committed federal partner that will keep our nation’s capital a symbol of American strength.”

Video of Patel’s announcement can be viewed below.

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An Ohio state legislator has reportedly drafted a bill that would make it illegal for colleges to host football games before 3:30 p.m., except for special circumstances.

Republican state Rep. Tex Fischer is looking to ban the earlier kickoffs particularly because Ohio State is frequently booked on Fox’s “Big Noon Saturday.”

‘I said it would be a crime for FOX to put Ohio State vs Texas at noon. Promises made, promises kept!’

The bill, shared by Fischer through an account called the Rooster, explained that “no college football game” in Ohio would start before 3:30 p.m. unless one team is from a state university and both teams are ranked in the top 10 of the Associated Press poll.

If a game does start earlier than the prescribed time without the stated provisions, a $10 million fine from Ohio’s attorney general would be handed down to either the host team’s football conference or the television network, “whichever party scheduled the earlier start time.”

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Ohio Stadium prior to the Ohio State Spring Game, April 12, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Ben Jackson/Getty Images

According to USA Today, the earlier games are generally an annoyance to traveling fans and regular attendees who are forced to get up earlier and have their tailgating time cut into.

Blaze News asked Fischer if he thought the earlier start times cut into tax revenue surrounding merchandise or liquor sales and if the tailgating time was a hot-button issue for him. Fischer’s office did not immediately reply to Blaze News’ request for comment.

The Buckeyes have played 35 games in the noon time slot since 2019, when Fox began broadcasting the Big Ten conference games. The conference typically has allowed Fox to schedule more high-profile games in the earlier time slot without having to compete with the popular 3:30 slot dominated by CBS and ESPN.

Now that Ohio State is the defending national champion, the bill hopes to change the likelihood of more early games, especially considering their schedule included seven in the past season.

Fischer boasted about the bill’s text in his accompanying post: “A few weeks ago, I said it would be a crime for FOX to put Ohio State vs Texas at noon. Promises made, promises kept!”

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Another caveat was carved out for rivalry games, which includes Ohio State vs. Michigan, which has a traditional start time of noon.

“Division (B) of this section does not apply if an earlier start time of a college football game between two teams is a college football tradition,” the proposed legislation read.

“For this purpose, a ‘college football tradition’ is a start time of a game between the teams of two institutions whose football teams have competed against each other at least fifty times and the start time has been the same for at least ninety-five per cent of those games.”

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