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On Saturday, August 8, the local government in Suisun City, California, completely froze. Hackers broke into the city’s computers, locked down the system, and forced officials to call an emergency. Workers couldn’t access basic files, run local offices, or keep normal operations moving.

Two days later, on Monday, August 10, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced a brand-new “AI Cyber Defense Program.” Newsom’s press team went into overdrive, boasting about this “first-in-the-nation” initiative. But being first is no guarantee of being good, and this plan is very bad.

Instead of sending immediate money or technical experts to fix broken local computers, Newsom’s big fix is to hire more bosses. He is telling state agencies to name an “AI cybersecurity officer” for every department and set up another state-level office. Small towns are getting hit by real ransomware today, and Sacramento’s answers are inflated job titles and publicity campaigns.

Hostile foreign governments view California’s weak systems as prime targets.

This predictable act of layering yet more bureaucracy on top of California’s morass is especially dangerous. Hostile foreign governments are actively targeting American infrastructure.

A tidal wave of danger

State-sponsored hackers from Russia, China, and Iran are scanning for weak spots in real time. These foreign adversaries are targeting the basic services that millions of Americans rely on every day.

Federal investigators recently uncovered Iranian-backed hackers targeting more than 30 water utilities across Minnesota. These terrorists would love nothing more than to bring America’s largest state to its knees. Imagine turning on the tap in your California kitchen and finding out the treatment plant was shut down by hackers operating out of Tehran or Beijing. Imagine a Russian cyber unit turning off the electricity grid during a 105-degree heat wave or freezing local 911 dispatch software so that emergency calls go unanswered. That is the real danger facing regular families.

Governor Newsom’s response to this massive crisis is filled with fancy-sounding distraction programs designed to look good on paper while accomplishing virtually nothing. He boasts about a consumer web tool named DROP, which lets residents ask data brokers to delete their personal info; a worker study project called Engaged California; and an “Innovation Council” accelerator stacked with tech executives and academics.

None of these projects stop a hostile missile site or a foreign military cyber unit from locking down your neighborhood’s water main. A small town trying to fix its emergency systems gets zero help from state-sponsored talking shops that focus on “listening at scale” while real-world servers burn.

When a city network gets locked, administrators need real-world backup teams, emergency funding, and simple hardware upgrades. They need basic password protections, isolated off-site backups, and physical network engineers, not empty political pledges about “responsible AI innovation.” Telling an underfunded county government to hire an advisory officer is like handing a firefighter a pamphlet on fire safety while the building burns down around him.

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It shifts the burden to local workers who lack the cash to fix the problem, while Sacramento pats itself on the back for creating another layer of red tape. It’s cruel, and it’s reckless.

Sitting ducks

The state government collects hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars every year, yet leaves everyday infrastructure running on decade-old, unprotected software. California is home to the richest technology companies in the world, but your local city hall relies on systems that can be breached by a savvy teenager using off-the-shelf software. Hostile foreign governments from Moscow to Tehran know this, and they view California’s weak local systems as prime targets to paralyze American life.

Imagine the chaos and the carnage. What happened in Suisun City, home to 29,000 people, was wake-up call enough. Now, imagine a blackout like that striking San Francisco, a city of over 810,000 residents on which America’s tech security depends, or Los Angeles, a crucial logistics hub with a massive population approaching 3.9 million.

Power grids going dead for hours, cell towers dropping, and panicking residents realizing they are completely unable to contact 911 dispatch. Traffic lights instantly go dark, emergency response grinds to a total halt, and municipal services go offline overnight. Widespread looting, mass panic, and violent crime would spill across city streets within hours.

The movie “The Purge” was written as Hollywood fiction, but an automated, state-sponsored cyber strike on California’s crumbling public infrastructure could turn that apocalyptic nightmare into an immediate reality.

Sacramento should treat serious national security threats as existential threats. Instead, it reduces them to paperwork and procedure. When the next city’s power or emergency lines freeze, Newsom will likely sign another executive order and announce another committee. California families deserve working water taps, reliable power lines, and real defenses against foreign enemies. They deserve a governor who takes their safety seriously and does everything in his power to ensure the state is prepared for the worst.

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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office released a video of a 44-year-old Florida man being led into a police cruiser after he was arrested for first-degree murder.

Jose L. Proano allegedly killed his elderly stepfather and dismembered his remains, which were found in suitcases near the man’s home.

The arrest report said someone was recorded on surveillance video stuffing human remains into suitcases.

Jorge Vazquez-Escutia was reported to be missing from his home on Hal Court on Aug. 4.

An arrest report said that someone told police Proano had been threatening Vasquez-Escutia and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The report also said someone claiming to be Proano’s friend had left a voicemail sent to the wife of Vasquez-Escutia claiming that Proano had killed him.

Deputies then canvassed the area near the missing man’s home on foot and were able to find suitcases with multiple human remains.

The arrest report said someone was recorded on surveillance video stuffing human remains into suitcases.

“There are no outstanding suspects, and there is no threat to the community,” said the sheriff’s office.

The victim’s neighbor Patrick Washington told WESH-TV that Vasquez-Escutia was known to be kind and helpful to others in the neighborhood.

“To hear that he’s been found unalive, that’s really close to home, because he was that neighborhood guy, we’re talking about close to 20 years,” Washington said.

“Gonna be touched to hear that one. Gonna be hurt,” he added.

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In the video posted by the sheriff’s office on Facebook, Proano stared at the camera for a second before the officer slammed the door shut on the police cruiser.

“Our thoughts are with Mr. Vazquez-Escutia’s loved ones as they navigate this unimaginable loss,” said the Sheriff’s Dept.

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Two former NBA players are making a point at the WNBA’s expense. Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White have said they intend to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft. Their point is obvious: They are men, and the WNBA exists as a women’s league. Yet a culture that struggles to say what a woman is has made even an obvious distinction strangely difficult to state.

There is a stage in childhood development often described as “magical thinking.” A child has not yet learned to distinguish consistently between what he wishes, imagines, or says and what exists independently of his mind.

Children eventually learn that saying, ‘I’m a pirate,’ does not make them pirates. A healthy civilization would do well to remember the same lesson.

The child announces, “I’m a pirate!” and for the next hour he is Captain Blackbeard. Later, he is a knight. By dinner, perhaps he is George Washington.

This is charming in a 3-year-old. It becomes considerably less charming when adults and institutions adopt a similar theory of reality. If an adult insists that he is Napoleon despite all evidence to the contrary, we do not ordinarily conclude that his conviction has transformed reality.

Consider one of the central claims of transgender ideology: A person can be a woman because he identifies as a woman. The identification is treated not merely as a desire, preference, or psychological state but as establishing what the person actually is.

Notice the philosophical claim being made.

Ordinarily, thinking something does not make it so. If I believe I am 6’5”, my belief does not add inches to my height. If I announce that I am 25 years old, the state does not alter my birth certificate. If I sincerely identify as the king of England, Buckingham Palace is under no obligation to prepare my bedroom.

Reality stubbornly refuses to conform itself to my thoughts.

Yet transgender ideology asks others to treat a declaration of gender identity as authoritative. Pronouns change. Bathrooms change. Athletic categories change. Institutional policies change. Increasingly, disagreement with the underlying claim is treated not as a philosophical dispute but as a moral offense.

When medical intervention enters the picture, the same assumption is extended to the body itself: Healthy tissue may be altered so that the body more closely conforms to the asserted identity, and the alteration is presented as affirming the person’s true self.

The remarkable thing is that the identification can itself be fluid. Someone might identify as male at one time, female at another, or neither. The surrounding society is nevertheless expected to reorganize itself around each successive declaration. That is the absurdity White and Freedom are trying to expose by invoking the WNBA.

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Imagine our 3-year-old announcing, “I’m a pirate,” and the entire neighborhood immediately converting itself into a Caribbean port. When he announces an hour later that he is a knight, everyone rushes outside to build a castle.

We would recognize the problem immediately. The world does not become whatever someone currently imagines it to be.

This raises a much older philosophical question: What does it mean for one thing actually to become another?

Change is real. An acorn becomes an oak tree. A boy becomes a man. Water can become ice or vapor or, under carefully controlled conditions, all three at once. But not every imaginable change is possible. A giraffe cannot become a lizard. A whale cannot become a cow. Saying otherwise does not expand the possibilities of nature.

The biblical account of creation provides a foundation for understanding why. God creates things with definite natures. Genesis repeatedly describes living things reproducing “according to their kinds.” Creation contains enormous variation, but variation does not abolish nature.

Human beings likewise have a nature. “Male and female he created them,” Genesis 1:27 tells us. Men and women share a common human nature and are equally made in the image of God, but they are not interchangeable sexes.

Men vary enormously from one another. Women vary enormously from one another. A man may be tall or short, masculine or effeminate, athletic or bookish. A woman may possess any combination of personality traits, interests, abilities, and appearances. None of those variations turns one sex into the other.

This is where our culture has confused identity with reality.

Historically, truth has meant bringing our minds into conformity with what is. If I believe something false, reality is not required to change. I am required to change my belief. That’s how we distinguish what is real from what is merely asserted.

The contemporary revolution reverses the direction. Instead of requiring my mind to conform to reality, reality — and everyone around me — must conform to my mind.

Behind this error stands an ancient temptation.

The Greek sophist Protagoras famously declared that “man is the measure of all things.” Taken in its most radical form, that principle places the human knower rather than an objective order at the center of truth.

RELATED: Christian family seeks SCOTUS win against trans insanity in ‘case about swinging d**ks’

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The biblical account takes us even further back. In Genesis 3, the serpent tempts Adam and Eve with the promise that they will “be like God,” determining good and evil for themselves.

The temptation is not merely to break a rule. It is to claim an authority that belongs to the Creator: the authority to determine reality and goodness for ourselves.

Some strands of modern critical theory give this temptation a contemporary vocabulary. Categories once understood as features of reality are redescribed as social constructions maintained by power. If human beings constructed the categories, the argument goes, human beings can reconstruct them.

But creation is not ours to reconstruct.

Christianity begins somewhere radically different: God is the measure of all things. God determines what exists because God created what exists. God determines human nature because God created humanity. God determines male and female because “male and female he created them.” And God determines what is good for us because God created our nature.

Our task, therefore, is not to demand that reality conform to our desires. It is to discipline our desires and beliefs according to reality.

That distinction reaches far beyond the transgender debate. A civilization cannot survive indefinitely if it teaches its citizens that sincere belief establishes truth and that everyone else must participate in maintaining the resulting claim.

Children eventually learn that saying, “I’m a pirate,” does not make them pirates.

A healthy civilization would do well to remember the same lesson.

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BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales has been leading the charge of busting H-1B fraud in her home state of Texas. Because of Sara’s investigative reporting, multiple companies have faced heightened federal scrutiny and lawsuits over alleged visa abuse, Texas lawmakers and officials have pushed for stronger state-level oversight and investigations, and the issue has fueled broader national policy debates and proposed reforms aimed at curbing displacement of American workers.

But for all the success she’s achieved, Sara has no plans to hang up her hat.

On a recent episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” she teased that things are about to get really bad for people scamming the H-1B system in the state of Texas. It’s not just Attorney General Ken Paxton involved any more — Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito has now joined the fight.

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“If you are an H-1B fraudster in this country, it is about to be a bad time for you, because the team-up they hoped would never happen — oh, it happened, and it is happening,” Sara warned.

She explains that she wasn’t in the studio recording episodes as she usually does.

“I was out in Texas in the streets with the inspector general of the Department of Labor, Anthony D’Esposito,” Sara shares.

The duo investigated several “ghost offices” in the Dallas area, one of which D’Esposito told Newsmax had “500 approved H-1B applications” but no signs of any business operations, along with some other questionable companies.

“You may see [D’Esposito] appearing in some of our H-1B investigation specials very soon — like maybe as soon as this weekend,” Sara teases.

“This is a huge one.”

To hear more about Sara and Anthony D’Esposito’s joint investigation and how you can watch the upcoming specials, check out the episode above.

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The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly planning to spend millions to outfit Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents with gloves that can deliver an electric shock to targeted individuals.

The gloves were developed by Compliant Technologies LLC out of Lexington, Kentucky, and have already been deployed by police departments and some jails.

‘If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool.’

A DHS notice published Monday says the agency is seeking to spend $20 million on the shocking gloves.

The devices are named G.L.O.V.E., an acronym for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. The manufacturer says the gloves function normally until the wearer activates the electrical mode. The globe must be in contact directly with the target’s skin, and the shock typically incapacitates the target in seconds.

John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, studied the device and described its effects.

“It’s immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting,” said Peters. “If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool.”

He went on to say the device could be misused but that it is unlikely to cause injuries.

“Unfortunately, we are unable to speak on this subject,” said Compliant Technologies founder Jeff Niklaus in an email about the report.

The manufacturer said officers must complete a course on the gloves and be recertified every two years.

“For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage” because it can produce faster takedowns and shorten confrontations,” Peters added.

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Jenn Rolnick Borchetta of the American Civil Liberties Union warned that the gloves could be abused.

“ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do,” Borchetta said. “Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public.”

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Why has election integrity become one of the most divisive issues in American politics? According to BlazeTV host Nick Freitas, the answer is simple: One side doesn’t want it.

“You want to make it so easy that it becomes incredibly easy to cheat,” Freitas says. “And more importantly, it becomes almost impossible to catch or prosecute cheating. That’s what you really want to do.”

“Right now we have a significant problem in the United States with two things,” he explains. “One, we have a very, very disengaged electorate in many sectors that simply just shows up to vote based off of, ‘Well, I thought this one had kind eyes.'”

“But then we have another class of voters that their entire thing is, ‘Who’s going to give me stuff at the expense of other people?’ And so when you are a net beneficiary of the bureaucracy, when you are a net beneficiary of wealth transfers from productive people to nonproductive people, you have a perverse incentive to vote for the people that are going to perpetuate that system,” he continues.

“So I am all about acknowledging that everybody voting is not necessarily a good thing for your country,” he adds.

And Freitas has something important that he wants Democrats to understand.

“When I actually see you guys concerned about the integrity of our elections, when I see you willing to actually put in proper safeguards to make sure that only citizens can vote, that they can only vote once. When I see you actually investigating in the cities that you control, when I see you investigating things that are obviously shady as hell,” he begins.

“When I see you guys looking at stuff like that going, ‘Yeah, that deserves to be investigated and potentially prosecuted,’ then I’ll believe you that all you want is for every eligible citizen to be able to participate in the process,” he continues.

“But I don’t believe that’s what you want,” he adds.

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A Republican congressional candidate says he was disinvited from a California convention in what is yet another episode of cancel culture.

Marty O’Donnell running as a Republican for Congress in Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, but there is way more happening behinds the scenes than the typical congressional run.

‘Propaganda from leftist supporters …’

Tarnished halo

O’Donnell is considered video game royalty after he composed the legendary theme song for the Halo series, which has cumulatively sold more than 80 million copies.

That is why O’Donnell makes appearances at popular conventions, and this was no different for SacAnime, in Sacramento in September.

O’Donnell said online that he was set to make a 25th anniversary appearance at SacAnime to celebrate the game, but was told he is no longer invited due to staff at the event voicing concerns about their safety.

“The promoter for SacAnime has shared that his LGBTQ staff does not feel comfortable if you attend the event,” the message shared by O’Donnell reads. “Based on your recently reported statements of the political campaign, they have to rescinded [sic] their invitation to not cause any further staff upset.”

O’Donnell expressed his disappointment with the move, adding, “If you thought we defeated Cancel Culture in 2024, guess again!”

While it isn’t clear what the event is referring to in particular, the cancellation comes following O’Donnell being put under the spotlight by Democrats last month.

The X account “HQNewsNow,” formerly @KamalaHQ, shared a video of O’Donnell in July that purported to show him saying he “calls for persecuting LGBTQ+ people.”

RELATED: ‘The system is rigged’: Congressional candidate Marty O’Donnell calls for cuts to ‘bloated’ federal government

Left behind

In the clip presented, O’Donnell says the following:

Talk about an existential threat — this is where we are right now. We are on the cliff looking down into the abyss. And the abyss is Marxism; it’s anti-Western philosophy. There’s a weird alliance of all these groups that like to pretend like they’re oppressed. So the LGBTQ+ people, the Islamists, the Marxists, they’re all together now.

The page for Headquarters was actively used to promote Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign. It was described at the time, according to Grok, as the official rapid-response page of Harris’ campaign, posting ads, videos, and endorsements.

O’Donnell told Blaze News that the cancellation was based on “propaganda from leftist supporters of my political opponent.”

“I’m disappointed I can’t support my actor friends,” O’Donnell added. “Folks who want to support me should contribute at MartyforCongress.vote.”

RELATED: Legendary Halo composer unravels the video-game industry’s woke collapse

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Cut scene

SacAnime’s most recent post promoting the event is riddled with remarks from O’Donnell supporters, who said, for example, “You guys are absolutely disgusting.”

“Why would you disinvite a gaming industry legend,” a woman asked on X.

“I’m seriously wondering if they even understand who pays them?” said another reply.

Headquarters could not be reached for comment.

SacAnime did not respond to a request for comment or confirmation surrounding O’Donnell’s removal from the event.

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The Justice Department’s criminal lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center has expanded to an indictment against a former official.

Heidi L. Beirich served as director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project from 2012 until 2019, as previously reported by Blaze News, and is accused of overseeing a field agent who “infiltrated” a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance.

‘This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system.’

Beirich was also allegedly in a romantic relationship with the field source.

Her attorney, Michael Proctor, confirmed that she was indicted Wednesday and was scheduled to appear in court in Riverside, California, later that day, according to the Associated Press.

Beirich is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, according to the DOJ.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel posted on social media about the superseding indictment.

“As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their previously alleged criminal activity — where SPLC knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations — when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups,” he wrote.

“This is an ongoing investigation. This FBI will find anyone who exploits the trust of the American people and our financial system,” he added.

“A free and fair society does not use the justice system to silence its political opponents,” said Proctor.

The SPLC, based in Alabama, has denied the allegations and accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the federal government against its political enemies.

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After leaving the SPLC in 2020, Beirich co-founded the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and has testified before Congress about right-wing extremism. She has also appeared on numerous news programs to opine as an expert on political extremism.

A statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama indicated that Beirich lives in Palm Springs, California.

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday that more arrests are expected in the case.

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NBC election guru Steve Kornacki had a very long election evening Tuesday that was capped off by a cringe-inducing coverage collapse.

Kornacki is known for his energizing staccato analysis of polling, but Tuesday’s election was especially vexing for the fan-favorite pundit.

‘I want you to know I hate, hate doing this to you, because I know you’re here for the results.’

At one point he debated whether he had time to go to the bathroom before another tranche of data arrived to change a pivotal election.

“I have to … do you know what I’m saying?” he said while gesturing.

“Well, I don’t want anybody to go anywhere. I will run. It’ll take two minutes! It’s just I, you know, you understand, but I don’t want — something just came in!” he said.

“What was it? [Francesca] Hong took the lead! Oh my! I almost went to the bathroom for that! OK!”

Many viewers lifted that moment from the network’s “Kornacki Cam” coverage on YouTube.

The culmination of Kornacki’s election divination shenanigans came when he apologized to the audience for ending his coverage after the results from Wisconsin were delayed by a massive error.

“We’re kind of indefinitely waiting for them to get their act together here and get the sticks and bring them back and go on. And we got folks here who are working real late, and I don’t think we wanna, you know, keep me here to, um, this could go 90 minutes. And it’s 90 minutes of me saying, ‘Have you heard of any other athletes running for Congress?'” he said as the night segued into morning.

“I want you to know I hate, hate doing this to you, because … I know you’re here for results,” Kornacki added.

The blank look on a clearly exasperated Kornacki peppered with cringey broadcast silence was described by one social media user as the “most awkward 3.5 minutes of live air in NBC News history.”

Video of that segment went viral on social media.

RELATED: MSNBC viewers spew hatred at Steve Kornacki for saying Walz wouldn’t help Democrat ticket

In another video from a week ago, Kornacki accidentally spilled his water bottle onto his computer and short-circuited the monitor .

Despite the bizarre moments, or maybe because of them, Kornacki continued to be popular among election watchers.

“I love him. He’s the best. Never not watching Kornacki cam on an election night,” responded one user.

“Kornacki is truly an amazing human being! Love him!’ said another.

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A heroic police dog has made a triumphant return to a Florida sheriff’s office after being shot and losing a leg while protecting deputies.

Angel Bowers, 27, was arrested and charged in March 2024 with allegedly having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old girl inside a children’s “princess tent,” according to KFOX-TV.

‘Prayers are answered because Ace is alive and our deputies are uninjured.’

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Bowers was scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 3 but failed to appear. A judge revoked Bowers’ bond and issued a felony warrant.

On Aug. 6, three Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies and K-9 Ace tracked down Bowers in a tent hidden in the woods, Judd stated in a press conference.

Police claimed Bowers began shooting at the officers, and one bullet hit Ace in his left shoulder, severely damaging his front leg and an artery.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office released audio of the moment that several shots were fired, and Ace can be heard whimpering in the background.

Citing the sheriff, KFOX reported that deputies returned fire, and Bowers was later found dead holding a stolen gun.

Ace’s partner and handler, Polk County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Natalie Oestreich, tended to the dog’s wounds and whisked him to safety, the sheriff’s office said, according to Fox News.

Ace, a 7-year-old German shepherd who has served with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office since March 2020, was rushed to the Parkway Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Lakeland, Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Once stabilized, Ace was airlifted to the Veterinary Medical Center at Lakewood Ranch in Bradenton.

Fox News reported, “Veterinarians there performed a several-hour surgery to amputate his left front leg.”

An emotional video shows a group of deputies giving Ace treats and applauding the K-9 as he walks out of the medical center under his own power while wearing a shirt that reads: “Ride or die.”

RELATED: Florida sheriff tells homeowners how to handle looters: ‘Shoot him so he looks like grated cheese’

On Tuesday, less than a week after being shot and losing his front leg, Ace returned to the sheriff’s office to a hero’s welcome.

“Look at Ace. He’s happy; he’s eating; he bit my finger,” Judd said.

“Listen, we’re so proud of Natalie and Ace,” Judd continued. “They stood in the gap between good and evil, and they saved three deputies’ lives. That’s why we’re so proud of him. He did so good, and we couldn’t have done it without the handler — she is absolutely the very best .”

“Prayers are answered because Ace is alive and my deputies are not injured,” Judd remarked.

Sadly, Ace was forced to retire because of his traumatic injuries. “Chill out and enjoy your retirement, Ace,” Sheriff Judd said.

The sheriff’s office said of Ace, “His days of chasing bad guys may be over, but Ace will always be one of our heroes!”

RELATED: Florida man wearing bra, fake breasts, G-string gets busted — but what cops found moments later raised more alarms: Police

Polk Sheriff’s Charities established a K-9 fund to help support Ace’s care going forward.

The sheriff’s office stated, “The Wiltse Family Trust has already informed us that they intend to cover the cost for Ace’s care at Veterinary Medical Center at Lakewood Ranch AND the Trust has already committed to purchasing a new K-9 to replace Ace now that he will have to retire.”

Steve Wiltse, who founded the Wiltse Family Foundation in 2019 to support community heroes with his wife, said Ace’s handler will not have to worry about “anything” in caring for the hero dog.

“That’s what the foundation’s there for, so it kind of makes it a no-brainer. It’s there for events like that, so Natalie can worry about Ace,” Wiltse told WTVT-TV. “She doesn’t have to worry about where she’s getting money; she doesn’t have to worry about anything.”

Mary Anne Wiltse added, “They keep us safe and protected, and if we can facilitate them with a tool to do that, then it’s fulfilling.”

“There’s a litany of emotions you go through: grief, sorrow, excitement, happiness, because he’s going to be OK,” Mary Anne Wiltse noted. “He was able to save the lives of three officers.”

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Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed a stark contrast between his private concerns and his public statements about COVID-19 vaccines and pregnancy. While Fauci assured Americans in 2021 that roughly 20,000 vaccinated pregnant women had shown “no red flags,” private messages from the same period show him discussing potential risks.

“Since the EUA and under the EUA, approximately 20,000 pregnant women have been vaccinated with no red flags, as we say, and this is being monitored by the CDC and the FDA,” Fauci said in 2021.

However, texts from Dr. Fauci’s phone reveal a much different story.

“I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of. Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,” he wrote.

Two weeks later, Fauci said, “[FDA] have found thus far, and we have to be careful, but thus far, no red flags about that, about pregnant women.”

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere is disturbed by the contrast.

“So that’s what he was saying publicly, while showing those sorts of doubts privately. And honestly, whether you think the COVID vaccine was great or you think it was terrible, whatever you think, you shouldn’t be doing those two things,” Stu comments.

“The man was asking other people in these circles, other physicians, other researchers, to delete emails to hide them. That is absolutely a crime when you’re a government official,” he adds.

Co-host Dave Landau points out that that wasn’t all Fauci was doing.

“He was asking that people be fired, have their medical license taken away. He was saying that he was ‘the science,’ that he was the be-all, end-all of what this was supposed to be,” Dave says.

Dave also explains that several of his friends’ wives miscarried after getting the COVID shot.

“I had three people text me yesterday because their wife miscarried after that booster,” he says.

“I talked to a person yesterday as well who had a similar situation,” Stu says.

“That’s four, though, just at this table,” says Dave.

“But again, that’s, you know, it’s anecdotal,” Stu says.

“That’s a rough anecdote,” Dave adds.

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President Donald Trump has announced that the White House press secretary will be resigning at the end of the month but will continue advising his administration.

Karoline Leavitt has been a fiery presence at the White House podium since Trump returned for a second term, but after giving birth to her second child in May, she decided to resign from the post.

She was the first pregnant White House press secretary in U.S. history.

“Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” said the president in a post on Truth Social Wednesday.

The president said she will continue to be one of his top outside advisers.

Leavitt had just returned to the administration from maternity leave. She was the first pregnant White House press secretary in U.S. history.

She has a son named Nicholas Robert Riccio, and the newest addition to her family a girl is named Viviana.

“Karoline has been one of the best White House Press Secretaries in the History of the Office. Thank you, Karoline, for a job well done!” the president concluded.

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Leavitt, who turns 29 later this month, is also the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary.

She and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, were married in Jan. 2025. They have a 32-year gap between their ages, according to People magazine.

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Anti-abortion activist Paul Vaughn was convicted in 2024 on a felony charge of conspiring to prevent access to a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, reproductive clinic, then pardoned alongside 23 other pro-life activists the following year by President Donald Trump.

Now, Vaughn’s attorneys have announced they have reached a seven-figure settlement with the federal government.

“Paul Vaughn is a father of 11. Bless his heart … and he’s a Christian pro-life activist,” guest host Ron Simmons says on “Relatable.”

“Federal prosecutors charged him under the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrance Act called the FACE Act, a 1994 law that makes it a crime to use force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with access to abortion clinics or other reproductive health facilities,” he explains.

“You can be there. You can be there and witness. You can be singing songs. You can be praying. You can be actually even handing out literature. You just can’t use force or physical obstruction or threats,” he adds.

Prosecutors even added a felony conspiracy charge, which meant he faced a potential sentence of more than 10 years in prison if convicted.

“And what happened is he was there at this facility and that somebody must have complained. And two days later … the feds, the FBI came in, guns pulled,” Simmons explains.

“They arrived with guns drawn and arrested him in front of his wife and several of his children, which is just incredible,” he continues, noting that, however, this is a “good news story.”

“First of all, Vaughn was able to win against the government,” he says, adding, “and secondly, that President Trump pardoned those people.”

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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley upset socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday.

But he’s no moderate. Crowley has pursued anti-white diversity, equity, and inclusion policies since taking office, from public parks to health care administration.

‘Apply a racial equity lens to all County decision-making.’

Crowley and every Wisconsin Assembly Democrat opposed a constitutional amendment in January banning race-based discrimination or preferential treatment by government agencies, though his dedication to DEI began much earlier.

Crowley began enlarging the county’s DEI programs shortly after his election as county executive in 2020, and he expanded the Racial Equity Ambassador team built under his predecessor during his first three months in office.

During that time, the Office on African-American Affairs “provided over 11,000 hours of racial equity training to more than 3,000 Milwaukee County employees to normalize discussions on racism, implicit bias, and microaggressions,” Crowley said in an August 2020 press release.

Crowley also deployed these ambassadors to public parks to determine if they were racist. Each park was reviewed and assigned a value in the Milwaukee County Park Equity Index, and parks’ “equity index score” helped determine “major maintenance funding allocations.”

As county executive, Crowley has publicly and consistently blamed white people for Milwaukee’s problems.

RELATED: Francesca Hong voted to protect pedophiles as assemblywoman

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“People in historic positions of power have typically been straight and white and male,” Crowley said in 2020. “People fall in the river because those who hold the power don’t always have the interests of all people in mind.”

Crowley supported an ordinance requiring Milwaukee County to “identify and address policies, practices, and power structures that, whether intentionally or unintentionally, work in favor of white people and create barriers for Black, Brown, Indigenous people, and people of color,” according to the county website. Crowley was later responsible for the statute’s implementation and expansion.

The ordinance wasn’t just a declaration of Crowley’s policy priorities. It was binding on all future county executives and Milwaukee County government as a whole.

“The ordinance ensures racial equity is a top priority of Milwaukee County government and remains larger than any one government leader,” according to the Office of Equity Projects and Programs webpage.

Crowley also upheld standards designed to exclude white applicants from both hiring and promotional pathways.

“We are always mindful of considerations of diversity when promoting our staff,” Crowley’s 2020 racial equity budget review reads.

“To attract a diverse field of applicants, we have focused on reaching out to our contacts and organizations throughout the city (e.g. the Wisconsin Black Lawyers Association and the Hispanic Lawyers Association) to let them know when there is an opening.”

The county didn’t merely reach out to contacts. It spent taxpayer money selectively advertising to non-white job-seekers.

“This year we have added money to support ads on blackjobs.com (to attract professional African American job seekers) and hispanicjobs.com (to attract Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx candidates),” the review reads.

RELATED: Swing-state election official resigns amid mail-in ballot investigation

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White employees who managed to keep their jobs were subject to race-specific condemnation. The county noted in that same review that it was “recognizing the work white people need to do to change their understanding and historic perception, to bring culture change in support of diversity and racial equity.”

Crowley and his team knew their DEI priorities weren’t making Milwaukee more prosperous. The COVID-era budget admitted that “racial equity and revenue generation by nature clash.”

Despite that admission, Milwaukee still spent millions in grants distributed according to DEI metrics.

“Our pursuit of racial equity will not be put on pause for the pandemic. It is crucial to invest in our marginalized communities now to secure a path forward and opportunity for continued economic growth long after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides,” Crowley said in a December 2020 press release after awarding $11.6 million to 1,534 businesses.

“In step with the County’s mission to address racial inequity, priority was given to businesses with a letter of support from a member of the Ethnic & Diverse Chamber Coalition, a group of chambers of commerce supporting entrepreneurs of color, women, LGBT, and veteran-owned businesses,” according to the release.

A 2021 Wisconsin Partnership Program outcome report found that 66% of grant recipients were indeed minorities, women, or veterans.

These programs are active and ongoing.

Milwaukee also launched a Racial Equity Lens Strategy team in 2021, “developing tools and processes to apply a racial equity lens to all County decision-making.”

“From advancing racial equity efforts to investing in affordable housing, mental health services, and public transit, we’ve realized great progress over the last four years in making Milwaukee County the healthiest community in Wisconsin,” Crowley said in 2024 reflection on the end of his first term.

Crowley and the Milwaukee Office of Equity did not respond to requests for comment.

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U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a daughter of immigrants who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, appears desperate to undermine the Trump administration at every opportunity — even at the expense of American election security.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March aimed at protecting “the integrity of the mail as a medium for transmitting Federal election ballots and establish[ing] uniform standards for mail-in or absentee ballot services implemented through the United States Postal Service.”

‘The district court’s erroneous orders will effectively run out the clock on the government’s ability to implement Section 3.’

The USPS subsequently issued a proposed rule that would implement best practices in accordance with the order, including a process that would help “evidence how many ballots have been mailed and allow law enforcement officials to compare the total number of mailed ballots to the total number of received ballots to detect potential issues meriting further investigation.”

The threat of higher standards was evidently too much to bear for liberal activist groups and various blue states.

Twenty-three Democratic-run states led by California and the District of Columbia challenged Trump’s executive order, claiming several parts of it violated the separation of powers, the Elections and Electors Clauses, and the 10th Amendment’s anti-commandeering doctrine.

Talwani ruled in June that the executive order did not apply in the blue states that raised the fuss and granted them a permanent injunction.

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In a separate but related case overseen by Talwani, the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and other liberal advocacy groups sued the government, claiming that sections 2 and 3 of the EO were unconstitutional and violated their members’ rights to vote.

On Tuesday, the Obama judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the USPS from “implementing, giving effect to, or enforcing Section 3 of Executive Order No. 14399, with respect to the November 3, 2026, or any earlier federal election.”

Section 3 of Trump’s EO requires that all outbound ballot mail must be in an envelope that:

is marked as official election mail;is automation-compatible and bears a unique intelligent mail barcode; andhas undergone a design review by the USPS to ensure compliance with agency mailing standards.

Section 3 also gave states until 60 days prior to the midterm elections to notify the USPS whether they intend to submit to the agency a list of eligible voters — with their eligibility confirmed on the basis of citizenship data — whom they intend to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot via the postal service.

The activist judge wrote, “Where the EO is presently causing confusion and threatening both increasing chaos and an erosion of trust in our democracy, the court finds that enfranchisement heavily outweighs the executive’s attempt to unconstitutionally insert itself into the domain of election regulation.”

“That it is now less than 90 days before the November 3, 2026, midterm elections underscores the critical need for an injunction to prevent Defendants from changing election rules on the eve of the election,” added Talwani.

The Trump administration — which asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the first of the two cases before Talwani on July 27 — asked again for a stay on Wednesday, stressing that the Obama judge’s order in the League of Women Voters of Mass v. Trump case “violates well-established Article III standing and ripeness requirements for all the same reasons as its prior orders.”

“Courts cannot enjoin implementation of an executive order that merely instructs agencies to pursue a proposed policy in a manner that is consistent with law, while leaving open material issues for them to resolve, unless and until those agencies actually take concrete actions that injure the plaintiffs,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer.

Sauer noted that barring a stay from the high court, “the district court’s erroneous orders will effectively run out the clock on the government’s ability to implement Section 3 of the executive order for the federal elections in November, thereby causing irreparable harm to the federal government, the public, and election integrity.”

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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has announced that a league task force has been formed to discuss the topic of transgender athletes.

“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention,” Engelbert wrote in a memo.

“Go ahead, laugh at the WNBA. The league is a joke. Cathy Englebert has formed a task force to determine what a woman is,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments.

“Enes Kanter and Royce White read the CBA, found the loophole, and declared for the 2027 draft. Two former NBA guys trolling a league that can’t define its own eligibility rules without a committee,” he adds, before playing videos of the men joking about the draft.

“It’s official, official, I just declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft in April. Join me in this journey,” former NBA player Kanter joked in a parody video.

Former Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Royce White also joined the bit, posting a photo of himself in a wig.

And while still wearing the wig during an interview with Alex Jones, White said, “You think Caitlin Clark’s drawing eyeballs to the women’s game? Wait till me and Enes Kanter get there. Wait until the LeBron James’ of the world show up.”

“Wait until your young high school athletes decide, you know what? Why would I want to go hang around with a bunch of other sweaty men in a hyper-competitive setting? Just go on over here to the WNBA and experience being a woman because we all should get the opportunity to experience being the other sex, because it’s just a construct anyway,” he added.

“That’s two former NBA players treating the Women’s National Basketball Association like an open mic night,” Whitlock says, adding, “And they’re funnier doing it than the league is at being serious.”

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The anti-establishment left-wing campaign to take over the Democratic Party has claimed another graying scalp, this time in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District.

Longtime Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), who is 78 years old, lost his bid for a 15th consecutive term in office to a former mayor who was backed by the progressive Working Families Party.

‘We need to build a Democratic Party that is bringing a whole new energy to this fight.’

Larson had tried to spark support among the far left by equating Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the SS paramilitary group and the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.

That appears to be too little, too late. With 99% of the vote counted, former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin trounced Larson, 54.2% to 33%.

Bronin gave his victory speech Tuesday evening on a message of generational change. “If we are going to fix this mess that we are in, we need to build a Democratic Party that is bringing a whole new energy to this fight,” said Bronin to supporters.

“The goal is to shake things up in Washington, D.C., and we are just getting started,” he added.

Concerns about Larson’s age and health came to the forefront when he suffered a complex partial seizure during a speech on the House floor last year.

Other results for the far-left fringe caucus were mixed on Tuesday after socialist Francesca Hong lost to an establishment candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.

Hong, who was backed by Democrat Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Ro Khanna (Calif.), narrowly lost the election by a fraction of a percentage point.

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Larson called on Democrats to “come together, heal, and move forward” in his concession speech.

His loss is also seen as a bellwether for other establishment Democrats across New England facing challenges from the far left.

Bronin will face Republican nominee Amy Chai in the general election, though his seat in Congress is almost guaranteed in the left-leaning district.

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A normal practice for an Arkansas high school football player turned out to be a potentially life-threatening incident. The only problem was, it was in the last place he would think to look.

The Maumelle High School student had already been warming up and running around for an hour on Thursday when he noticed something weird about his equipment. According to KARK 4, the player noticed a strange sensation before realizing he was feeling movement inside his helmet.

‘It really was just shock and disbelief.’

The youngster quickly handed his helmet to a member of the coaching staff, who then passed it off to his coach Kirk Horton. To Horton’s surprise, there was a snake embedded into the player’s helmet, nestled in between the padding and the exterior shell.

“It really was just shock and disbelief,” Horton told the local outlet. “I mean, I’ve got a better chance of winning the lottery [than] seeing this in my 10 years.”

To make matters worse, the snake was later identified as a poisonous cottonmouth, whose venom can damage blood vessels, break down red blood cells, and even cause fatalities.

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Maumelle Animal Services soon responded to the high school and verified the snake type after receiving a report of a possible snake-in-helmet incident.

“When the officers got there and stuff, they examined the helmet, and at that time, they could see that there was a snake in the helmet,” Maumelle Animal Services Director Chris Davis told KATV.

Davis said this was one of the most unusual snake captures he had ever been to.

“I’ve removed a snake out of a car vent, in the engine, purses, backpacks,” Davis went on. “In a helmet? Never.”

The cottonmouth is also capable of localized necrosis, and while fatalities are rare, their bites should be taken very seriously. The University of Georgia states that bites typically occur when individuals “attempt to handle, kill, or intentionally harass the snake.”

RELATED: ‘Freaking snake’: Trump’s new DHS pick faces major roadblock from lone Republican

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“It was very unreal,” Davis added. “You had to kind of be there and take pictures to say this was real.”

While most football players have to worry about hydration or injuries during practice, students at Maumelle High School now also have to worry about the potential of deadly snakes.

“The cottonmouth, in my opinion, is probably the second most venomous snake here in Arkansas,” Davis concluded. “I would say the rattlesnake is probably the number one.”

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Grimes County, Texas, is about to become ground zero for Elon Musk’s biggest swing yet.

It’s another crushing loss for California, which, once upon a time, might well have played host to the gargantuan project.

To no one’s surprise, it won’t come cheap. Musk’s companies are starting with an initial investment of $16.8 billion, with a goal of $55 billion and the possibility of the figure rising to nearly $120 billion if extra phases are completed, Reuters reported.

The ambitious goal is to create a one-stop shop to address the needs of SpaceX, Tesla, and the U.S. government, all under one roof.

But that’s not all.

‘Thousands of high-paying jobs in the Lone Star State.’

The announcement of the facility, dubbed Terafab, comes after President Trump signed an executive order in late June that called for increased focus on and production in quantum computing.

White House Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios said there needed to be an increase in the domestic supply chain for products like superconducting circuits and semiconductors.

Elon Musk is following up the Trump administration’s call to ramp up chip production with Terafab, which will sprawl out to one-sixth the size of Manhattan. That’s roughly 10 times the size of Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas, which itself was launched as another move to evacuate California’s rough corporate environment.

Put another way, Terafab will span the size of about 60 NFL stadiums.

The complex will make, package, and test advanced memory chips that will reportedly be used as the backbone of Tesla’s Optimus robots and driverless Cybercabs, in addition to being the bedrock for SpaceX data centers.

RELATED: The rockets are still blowing up. So why is Elon laughing on his SpaceX earnings call?

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Musk has been clear on the subject, framing the factory as a must-have for chip production.

Along with the 100-million-square-foot facility will be approximately 3,000 jobs and an unknown number of power plants. “The Terafab is bringing cutting-edge manufacturing to America, creating thousands of high-paying jobs in the Lone Star State, and enabling us to produce AI chips at scale for use on Earth and in space,” Musk said.

Notably, Musk is making a big bet on using gas power plants for the venture, not solar energy.

This may come as a surprise to some, as Musk has made significant investments in solar energy dating back to 2016, when he purchased energy company SolarCity for $2.6 billion in an all-stock deal.

As TechCrunch reported, SpaceX’s data center development team has indicated it will be bringing its own power to the Texas plant, while also including “very large battery arrays.”

RELATED: Trump writes new rules to stop rogue AI — but they’re classified

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As if that’s not enough, Musk will also be directly competing with the largest semiconductor makers in the world, such as TSMC, which is racing ahead with a huge expansion of its Arizona facility.

Terafab will do this by implementing free-electron laser technology. The “intense, powerful beams of laser light” are better for making the most advanced, smallest-feature chips, because they can produce extremely powerful light while remaining tunable. This allows for faster chip production.

“FEL FTW,” Musk wrote on X in response to rumors.

“We either build the Terafab,” said Musk, “or we don’t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab.”

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A 44-year-old male allegedly fractured a female DoorDash driver’s skull with a baseball bat earlier this month in Jacksonville, North Carolina — after she honked at him at a green light when he wouldn’t move his vehicle in front of her.

Around 1:20 a.m. Aug. 1, 34-year-old Christen Phillips was making a delivery when she stopped at the intersection of Western Boulevard and Gum Branch Road, WITN-TV reported.

‘It’s a miracle that I woke up.’

Phillips told deputies with the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office that the car in front of her did not move when the light turned green, so she honked her horn, the station said.

Deputies told WITN the driver moved out of Phillips’ way — then began following her.

After Phillips dropped off food in the Shamrock Drive area, deputies told the station the man she honked at hit her in the head with a baseball bat as she walked back to her car.

Deputies said Stanley Shockley is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, WITN reported.

Phillips was able to get to a hospital soon after the attack and suffered severe injuries, the station said.

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Phillips told WCTI-TV she was knocked unconscious during the attack.

“When the guy hit me in the head, and I was knocked out, I believe he thought I was dead, left me for dead,” Phillips noted to WCTI. “It’s a miracle that I woke up.”

Phillips added to WCTI she suffered multiple skull fractures and a fractured cheekbone and underwent brain surgery.

Investigators on Monday searched the home on Shamrock Drive where Shockley lives, WITN reported, adding that investigators said the search helped them connect Shockley to Phillips’ assault.

During a court appearance Tuesday morning, a prosecutor accused Shockley of wiping his Ring camera footage clean, WITN said, adding that Shockley lives six doors down from where the crime occurred.

A judge ordered Shockley to be held without bond, WITN noted.

Sheriff Chris Thomas said tips from the public and the work of detectives helped investigators make the arrest Monday, WCTI reported.

“We appreciate the number of tips and leads the public provided us,” Thomas said, according to WCTI. “Our detectives follow every lead, carefully work through the evidence, and continue to pursue answers even when the investigation presents challenges.”

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