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Delaware Governor Matt Meyer, a Democrat, stated that he was “proud” to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Meyer signed
House Bill 140 into law on Tuesday, amending Delaware’s code concerning end-of-life options and making it the 11th state in the nation to legalize assisted suicide in certain situations.

‘It turns the tools of healing into lethal weapons.’

The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Eric Morrison (D), permits mentally capable adults diagnosed with a terminal illness to opt for physician-assisted suicide if they are given only six months or less to live. It requires that those considering the life-terminating option be presented with alternative options, such as comfort care, palliative care, hospice, and pain control. Additionally, the law first requires two waiting periods and a second medical opinion on the patient’s prognosis.

The bill reads, “This Act permits a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual’s life in a humane and dignified manner if both the individual’s attending physician or attending advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) and a consulting physician or consulting APRN agree on the individual’s diagnosis and prognosis and believe the individual has decision-making capacity, is making an informed decision, and is acting voluntarily.”

RELATED: More women seeking elective, government-assisted suicide than men, as euthanasia in Canada rises 16% in 1 year

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Upon signing the bill into law on Tuesday, Meyer claimed it advanced “compassion.”

“We’re acknowledging today that even in the last moments of life, compassion matters,” he stated. “Every Delawarean should have the right to face their final chapter with peace, dignity, and control.”

“This signing today is about relieving suffering and giving families the comfort of knowing that their loved one was able to pass on their own terms, without unnecessary pain, and surrounded by the people they love most,” Meyer said. “It gives people facing unimaginable suffering the ability to choose peace and comfort, surrounded by those they love. After years of debate, I am proud to sign HB 140 into law.”

Delaware lawmakers shot down the measure last year.

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C., have similar laws.

Delaware’s End-of-Life Options Act will go into effect next year.

RELATED: England legalizes assisted suicide — former prime minister says government abuse will be prevented

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Paul Dupont, the policy director at the American Principles Project, told Blaze News that Delaware’s new law signals a “troubling trend.”

“Delaware becoming the 11th state to legalize physician-assisted suicide is a symptom of the troubling trend in our culture that continues to devalue life to the point of promoting death as a solution to suffering. It undermines the dignity of every person and creates an environment where the elderly, disabled, and marginalized feel their lives are burdens,” Dupont said.

He added, “Instead of allowing this ‘death culture’ to take over our country, states need to pass pro-life and pro-family legislation that affirms the worth of every individual to counter these harmful policies.”

Ryan T. Anderson with the Ethics and Public Policy Center argued that physician-assisted suicide “violates the fundamental principles of medical care.”

Anderson told Blaze News, “It turns the tools of healing into lethal weapons. And it threatens to fundamentally distort the doctor-patient relationship because it reduces patients’ trust in doctors and doctors’ undivided commitment to the life and health of their patients.”

“The ‘option’ of physician-assisted suicide provides perverse incentives for insurance providers — public and private,” he continued. “It offers a quick way to cut costs in a world of increasingly scarce health care resources. And it’s the weak and vulnerable and marginalized who will be most at risk in a culture in which assisted suicide is permitted.”

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A man was arrested after a string of violent cat deaths were reported by pet owners in Orange County, California.

46-year-old Alejandro Oliveros Acosta was accused of killing or injuring numerous cats since November in the Santa Ana area, according to police.

He was found to be in possession of methamphetamine at the time of his arrest, according to police.

The Santa Ana Police Department first acknowledged the reports in a social media post in April, which referred to residents being “deeply concerned” about “multiple incidents of cats being killed” in the community.

KTLA-TV compiled several reports from viewers about the incidents.

“We saw our cameras, and this guy just grabbed a neighborhood cat, seemed like he tied his legs up and took him around 5pm. He went walking on Shelton street towards McFadden. The cat is Black with light brown spots,” read a post on the Nextdoor app.

“Hello! I’m near El Savador park and my neighbor’s cat was killed by a man that injected it with some sort of substance,” read another post.

A suspect was captured on surveillance video luring a Bengal Lynx cat with cat food, but the pet was returned to its family after the video was released publicly.

Weeks later, a man called Santa Ana Animal Control to report that he had seen his neighbor pick up a cat over his head and slam it to the ground.

RELATED: California lawmaker introduces ‘Dog and Cat Bill of Rights’

Image source: Santa Ana Police Facebook reel screenshot

Another report described a man driving a truck similar to that in the Bengal cat incident but stomping on a cat with his foot.

Police identified a suspect as Oliveros Acosta, and he was arrested in April. He was found to be in possession of methamphetamine at the time of his arrest, according to police.

Community outrage over the case led to a vigil outside the suspect’s home, where people were reportedly injured after some started throwing objects and vandalizing property.

Oliveros Acosta was charged with two felonies, animal cruelty and theft of a companion animal, as well as misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.

Prosecutors asked for bail to be increased to $100,000 from the statutory $20,000 for Acosta based on their opinion that he posed a danger to the community.

Here’s surveillance video from the case:

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In October 2023, former President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with special counsel Robert Hur, and what really happened during the interview has remained a mystery — until now.

In the recently released audio tapes, which were obtained by Axios last week, the former president lost his train of thought repeatedly and failed to recall important details of his political and personal life.

That included when his son died.

The Biden administration had initially refused to release the audio tapes, claiming that they contained protected “law enforcement materials.”

“I can’t handle the truth in this instance. That is very difficult to listen to any of that without becoming stark raving mad,” BlazeTV host Matthew Peterson tells co-host Jill Savage after listening to Biden stumble over the date of his son’s passing.

“And of course, the question here is why are these tapes finally being published now? Of course, not only does Axios’ Alex Thompson have a book to sell, but over the weekend, Biden’s team also announced on top of all of this, after the whole nation realizes for real, even the most normie normie, that he was obviously senile for a long time,” Peterson continues.

“Now, we learn that he’s suffering from an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and the mainstream media is going to do what they do. They’re going to do the whole cover-up,” he adds.

The cover-up of Biden’s declining mental and physical health now begs the question — who really was making all of the decisions?

“I certainly have my suspicions,” Executive Director of the Oversight Project Mike Howell tells Peterson and Savage. “And one of the first people that Chairman Comer, when he announced they’re actually going to subpoena some individuals to come in to testify about it all, is Neera Tanden.”

“She was the staff secretary, basically the one who controlled all the paper. Recall famously she comes from Soros’ world,” he continues. “I think there’s going to be gradations of people, I don’t think it’s going to be one, I think it’s basically a committee of certain influences and special interests.”

“I think Obama’s world had a profound outsized impact on it,” he adds, noting that the autopen scandal his team broke wide open unfortunately only reinforces his belief that Biden was not behind his decisions.

“Last summer we basically realized, ‘Hey, all these documents that Biden’s purporting to sign look a little goofy,’” Howell explains. “And so we pulled them all and figured out, ‘Oh, they’re using an autopen or at least two variations of an autopen for simply copying and pasting the same signature.’”

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The Department of Homeland Security revealed shocking details about the “barbaric, dangerous” illegal aliens who were placed on a deportation flight to South Sudan.

The Trump administration was accused of violating a federal order when it was discovered that the administration was flying illegal aliens to war-torn Sudan. On Wednesday, the administration released details about the convictions of the deported.

‘No country on earth wanted to accept them because their crimes are so uniquely monstrous and barbaric.’

“We conducted a deportation flight from Texas to remove some of the most barbaric, violent individuals illegally in the United States,” read the statement from the DHS. “No country on earth wanted to accept them because their crimes are so uniquely monstrous and barbaric.”

Among those listed were Enrique Arias-Hierro, a Cuban national who had a criminal history including “convictions for homicide, armed robbery, false impersonation of official, kidnapping, robbery strong arm,” according to the DHS.

Laos citizen Thongxay Nilakout was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery and sentenced to life confinement.

Mexican national Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez was convicted of second-degree murder and also sentenced to life confinement. His booking photo appears to show him with “216” tattooed on his neck.

RELATED: Trump admin yanks South Sudan visas until nation accepts deportation flights

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Dian Peter Domach, a citizen of South Sudan, was convicted of “robbery and possession of a firearm, of possession of burglar’s tools and possession of defaced firearm and driving under the influence.”

Burmese citizen Kyaw Mya was convicted of lascivious acts with a child victim less than 12 years of age and sentenced to 10 years of confinement.

Another Burmese citizen, Nyo Myint, was convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting. Myint was sentenced to 12 years’ confinement.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy intervened in deportations to Libya based on the humanitarian crisis there, and those conditions are also true of South Sudan.

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China-linked sources have allegedly funded a nongovernmental organization that was accused of instructing illegal aliens on how to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to a Tuesday report.

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered that Chinese government sources bankrolled the Chinese-American Planning Council, a nonprofit group founded in 1965. According to the organization’s website, it is dedicated to promoting “the social and economic empowerment of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities.”

‘ICE’s efforts to enforce our immigration laws and remove illegal aliens from the country is the latest far-left cause that they appear to be exploiting in this effort.’

However, the NGO has previously been accused of helping illegal aliens evade immigration authorities and facilitating unlawful immigration with federal funding.

In April, Muckraker exposed footage that purportedly showed Carlyn Cowen, the CPC’s chief policy and public affairs officer, explaining how to avoid ICE agents.

“In the restaurant that I work at on the weekend, what we train everybody to do is if we see ICE come to the door, we actually enter a button in our [point of sale] system that says ‘la migra,’ and you click it, and then it prints a ticket to everywhere else in the restaurant so that everybody knows,” she stated, according to the undercover video. “No matter what kind of organization or business that you’re in, we have a few ways that you can get ready.”

In the recording, Cowen rattled off a list of methods to avoid ICE, including “hardening your physical space,” “identifying individuals that are authorized to respond if ICE comes to the door,” and “having a clear protocol.”

RELATED: Oversight Project exposes Democrat-aligned NGO’s ‘conspiracy’ to undermine immigration enforcement

RELATED: ‘There are Chinese spies at Stanford’: Shocking report unmasks CCP’s espionage at American universities

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The House Homeland Security Committee, led by Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.), responded to the leaked video by launching an investigation into CPC. According to the committee, 55% of the organization’s revenue comes from federal and state government grants.

CPC has maintained that it “fully adheres to all laws.”

“Our trainings do not direct anyone to do anything or to evade the law, but rather to inform participants of their constitutional rights, which they may choose to exercise,” Alice Du, CPC’s director of communications, told Documented.

According to the DCNF’s report, the CPC has received up to $445,969 in donations since 2018 from sources linked to the Chinese government.

These funds reportedly included nearly $10,000 in 2020 and up to that amount again in 2024 from the government-run Bank of China.

The investigation found that the Commercial Bank of China, also state-owned, donated a total of nearly $20,000 to the NGO from 2018 to 2023.

Additionally, the CPC reportedly receives yearly donations from the Bank of East Asia, based in Hong Kong, totaling up to $45,000 since 2018. The DCNF’s report noted that two of the institution’s leaders have served as delegates for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a political advisory body for the Chinese Communist Party.

The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a nonprofit and New York City-based health center, provided the CPC with as much as $229,993 since 2018.

Charles B. Wang, one of the health center’s major donors, has “frequently met with CCP influence and intel leaders in China,” the DCNF reported based on media reports.

Despite receiving nearly $700,000 since 2009 from the Charles B. Wang International Foundation, a spokesperson for the health center told the news outlet that it is not tied to Wang’s “associations with his other philanthropic efforts across the world.”

The CPC did not respond to requests for comment from the DCNF.

The investigation’s findings further raise concerns about China’s threat to U.S. national security.

Ira Mehlman, media director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Blaze News, “It has been pretty clear for some time that fomenting social unrest and division in the United States has been the aim of the Chinese government.”

Mehlman explained that the Chinese government has been funding “a network of groups” based in the U.S.

“ICE’s efforts to enforce our immigration laws and remove illegal aliens from the country is the latest far-left cause that they appear to be exploiting in this effort,” he said.

Mehlman suggested thoroughly reviewing visas and NGO funding sources to reduce foreign influences.

“To the extent that the government can identify foreign nationals, be they Chinese or other, who are here under false pretenses as students or who have misrepresented their intentions on other types of visa applications, those visas should continue to be revoked, and the individuals expelled,” he explained. “Outside the scope of immigration policies, the government also needs to look into the funding sources for these groups and take appropriate action if these groups are acting on behalf of foreign governments.”

President Donald Trump’s administration has been implementing similar measures to reduce foreign influence and address the broader issues of illegal immigration. Attorney General Pam Bondi previously instructed the Department of Justice to investigate NGOs receiving federal funding. The New York Post reported that the Department of State revoked 4,000 foreign student visas over the first 100 days of Trump’s second term.

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Ohio police say that a 24-year-old Venezuelan migrant was caught pretending to be 16 years old in order to attend a high school and was living with a couple who housed exchange students.

Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra was accepted to attend a high school in Perrysburg, Ohio, in Nov. 2023 after claiming to be homeless and an immigrant from Venezuela, according to City of Perrysburg Police.

His alleged scam began unraveling when a woman contacted the Melfreds to tell them that Labrador was ‘actually a 24-year-old and he was the father of her child.’

He also claimed to be a victim of human trafficking and presented the school with a birth certificate from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that showed a birthdate in 2007. He started attending the school in Jan. 2024, according to police.

Then in March, Kathy and Brad Melfred agreed to house Labrador, as they accepted exchange students and had foster children as well.

The Melfreds helped Labrador obtain a Social Security number and an Ohio driver’s license after being appointed his permanent guardians.

His alleged scam began unraveling when a woman contacted the Melfreds to tell them that Labrador was “actually a 24-year-old and he was the father of her child.” She presented them with another birth certificate showing Labrador to be instead a 24-year-old man as well as photos from Facebook showing him and a small child.

RELATED: Trump admin revokes protected status extension for Venezuelan nationals

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When police reached out to U.S. Border Patrol, the agency confirmed that Labrador had an actual birthdate from 2001 and an expired work visa. Border Patrol also said that Labrador was considered a visa overstay.

Police arrested Labrador on Monday on felony forgery charges.

Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio blamed the Temporary Protection Status policies of former President Joe Biden for the incident and said that there’s evidence Labrador might have had “a relationship with a minor.”

“Unreal. Thanks to Joe Biden’s abuse of TPS, a 24 year old illegal alien was caught on a fake asylum claim pretending to be a teenager at a high school in Ohio,” said Moreno on social media.

“Today, I am calling for a full investigation into this scandal and what is being done to keep our children safe,” he added.

In a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Moreno called for an investigation into the incident to root out whether the migrant had committed sexual misconduct.

Online records indicate that Labrador was given a bond of $50,000.

Labrador had joined the junior varsity soccer and swim teams at the high school. The district said it reported the incident to the Ohio High School Athletic Association.

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“Major progress,” they said — 40% of egg-laying hens in the U.S. are now cage-free. The term rolled off marketers’ tongues and into the consumer psyche. It was hailed as a victory for humanity, an animal-rights milestone, and a signal that the world had woken up.

Only it hadn’t; it still hasn’t.

Avian flu loves a cage-free barn. It’s paradise. Tens of thousands of birds, anxiety-ridden, packed together, moving constantly, shedding feathers and fluids — all under one roof.

This is the story of a bait and switch. A story about how a movement meant to free animals instead created a new, more lucrative illusion. A story about language, imagery, and money. Because this wasn’t just a change in how hens live. It was a change in how you think they live.

The real winners? It wasn’t the birds, and it sure wasn’t you.

The lie they sold

Cage-free sounds like something you’d want. Like something a decent, thoughtful person would support. It conjures an image: hens roaming a sunny field, grass underfoot, maybe a red barn in the distance. There’s a reason egg cartons are covered in soft-focus photography — rustic charm, warm light, happy animals.

But cage-free doesn’t mean any of that. Yes, these hens are no longer kept in individual metal cages. Instead, they’re packed into massive industrial sheds, tens of thousands per building, with just enough space to move, but not enough to breathe.

There are no cages. But there’s no freedom, either.

It’s like upgrading from a prison cell to an overcrowded holding pen. More bodies. More panic. More chaos. You don’t need to be a biologist to know that stress in animals leads to injury, infection, and disease. But we told ourselves otherwise. We said, “At least they’re not in cages.”

That’s the bar now? Not in cages?

Origins of a PR coup

The “cage-free” revolution was born not out of compassion but necessity. It began as pressure — from activists, from voters, from a slow, growing discomfort among consumers who started to realize where their food really came from.

Animal welfare groups saw an opening. Their goal: Abolish the cage system. And to be fair, those cages are grim. A single hen gets less than a sheet of printer paper’s worth of space. Her beak is clipped. Her feathers rubbed off. Her bones brittle from disuse. It’s ugly. It’s cruel. It’s cheap.

Corporations, seeing the writing on the wall, got ahead of the legislation. McDonald’s. Walmart. Target. “We’re going cage-free,” they said. The headlines celebrated.

But here’s what most people didn’t notice: The corporations weren’t going pasture-raised. They weren’t committing to fewer birds, more land, or actual outdoor access. They were swapping one form of confinement for another and charging you more for the privilege.

Because cage-free costs more. More labor. More infrastructure. More mortality. And in a brilliant twist, those costs get passed on to you, the ethical consumer, who walks out of the store feeling morally superior with your $9-a-dozen eggs. It’s not reform; it’s a rebrand. A truly brilliant rebrand.

Eggistential crisis

Industrial cage-free barns are horror films with better lighting.

No cages, yes. But the birds now may pile on top of each other. They may fight. They may crush each other to death. They may die from heat exhaustion in poorly ventilated mega-sheds. And when one gets sick, the whole shed goes down with her.

Avian flu loves a cage-free barn. It’s paradise. Tens of thousands of birds, maybe anxiety-ridden, packed together, moving constantly, shedding feathers and fluids — all under one roof. The moment infection enters, it’s over.

Starting from 2022, when outbreaks began to spike across the U.S. and Europe, authorities quietly admitted that cage-free farms were hit hardest. Controlled environments, as awful as they are, limit viral spread. Open environments amplify it. This is an indisputable fact.

And when outbreaks happen, do you think they treat the birds? Of course not. They cull. Fast and ruthlessly. That’s your cage-free egg system. That’s what you’re funding.

Who really benefits?

Follow the money. Always.

Corporations benefit from the price markup, egg producers benefit from market differentiation, animal-rights groups benefit from headlines and donation spikes, and politicians benefit from photo ops on “moral progress.”

But the animals? They certainly don’t win. They’re just moved from one type of suffering to another, and you’re being charged more for a label that makes you feel less guilty — without actually changing the underlying cruelty of the system. It’s the perfect con. It’s cheaper than real reform. And it’s far more profitable.

Cage-free is a lesson in semantics, a master class in how to manipulate through language. Because language shapes perception, and perception controls behavior.

They could have called it “mass-housed.” Or “aviary confinement.” Or “non-caged industrial lay systems.” But that wouldn’t sell. Cage-free is slick. It’s open-ended. It lets your brain fill in the blanks with whatever fantasy you prefer. The egg industry didn’t have to lie. It just had to let your imagination do the heavy lifting.

And it worked.

The better way (that never caught on)

Pasture-raised exists. It’s real. It’s what most people think they’re buying when they choose cage-free. Fewer birds. Outdoor access. Natural diets. Veterinary oversight. It costs more, yes — but it also delivers on the promise.

Then why isn’t it the standard? It’s expensive, logistically difficult, and land-intensive. Worst of all, it doesn’t scale.

You can’t run a billion-dollar egg empire on pasture. You can’t fill supermarket shelves with ethical, low-density protein and still turn quarterly profits. Which means the market had to invent something else — something cheaper, uglier, but still sellable. Enter “cage-free.”

You don’t fix this by switching labels. You fix it by understanding what the labels mean — and what they don’t.

Cage-free isn’t exactly evil, but it isn’t progress, either. It’s a compromise wrapped in a promise it can’t keep. It was never meant to solve the problem. It was meant to neutralize it. To dull the outrage. To make us feel like something was being done.

If we want real change, we have to demand better, not just better marketing. We have to stop falling for feel-good euphemisms. We must stop measuring ethics in packaging font sizes and start measuring them in actual outcomes.

The future of food doesn’t need more jargon. It needs brutal honesty.

It starts by admitting the truth: Cage-free wasn’t a step forward. It was a detour, a pretty lie in a recyclable carton, and we paid extra for it.

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Megyn Kelly made Jake Tapper answer for his own complicity in hiding former President Joe Biden’s mental decline after the CNN anchor tried to cash in on the controversy with a book.

Tapper is on a media publicity campaign to sell his book about the Biden White House covering up the health problems of the former president, but many have pointed out that Tapper vehemently defended the Biden team when they faced criticism.

‘You didn’t follow up on the fact that he was falling up the stairs, that he was losing his train of thought regularly, that he was slurring, that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting lost on the White House lawn.’

Kelly forced Tapper to face the music when he visited her for an interview on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” alongside his co-author, Alex Thompson.

“Jake, the criticism has been that you’re complaining about a cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental acuity that failed, that the right-wing pundits saw, the right wing in general saw, that independent media all saw and reported on. And that was no mystery, even to left-wing and so-called mainstream reporters who were not fooled, but chose willful blindness instead of honest reporting. And that you were part of it. How do you respond?”

“It’s a tough and fair question,” Tapper responded.

“I would say that Alex and I, after Election Day [2020], interviewed more than 200 people, 200, mostly Democratic insiders, and almost all of these interviews were after the election. And they justified to themselves what they had done, in terms of misrepresenting how the president was, not just to me and Alex and other reporters, but also just to each other, and to the world and to Democrats in the Cabinet, et cetera, by saying there is this existential threat of Donald Trump and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, and that justified everything in their minds,” he added.

“After that existential threat was over, because the election was over and Donald Trump won, they were, we found, remarkably willing to talk to us either off the record or on background,” he said, “or, in some cases, on the record about what they saw.”

— (@)

Kelly especially grilled Tapper on an interview in which he berated Lara Trump over her accusations against Biden. He relented and admitted that he had been wrong.

“Look, knowing what I know now, obviously, I feel tremendous humility about my coverage,” Tapper said. “That Lara Trump interview, for example, she saw something that I did not see at the time, 100%. And I own that. I did ask Joe Biden to be transparent about his health records in an interview in 2020.”

“But then he wasn’t,” Kelly interjected.

“No, he wasn’t transparent at all,” Tapper said.

Kelly pressed him about the lack of questions about Biden’s state during several Tapper interviews.

“You didn’t ask him about it. You didn’t follow up on the fact that he was falling up the stairs, that he was losing his train of thought regularly, that he was slurring, that he was incomprehensible, that he was getting lost on the White House lawn. You sat right across from him, and you asked none of that.”

RELATED: Media cover-up unravels: Biden’s mental struggles confirmed in damning leaked tapes

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Kelly kept pushing against Tapper, and he admitted to making mistakes.

“There is a way of pressing a man like that, on the actual infirmities, to bring it home, to him and to the audience, and you didn’t do it.”

“That’s correct. I didn’t,” Tapper said. “And like I said, I feel humility about my coverage. It’s not like I was asking him his favorite movie or his favorite color. We were talking about Putin. We were talking about other issues of national importance. But yeah, of course, I’ve said I look back on my coverage with humility. And I wish — I did cover the issues of age and mental acuity, but I wish I had covered them much more.”

— (@)

He went on to say that he apologized personally to Lara Trump.

“Her comments have aged well. My comments have aged poorly. And I own that,” Tapper added.

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Over the past few years of unhinged lawfare against President Trump, “no one is above the law” has become a favorite saying of the Democrats. However, now one of their own is on the legal chopping block — and they’re crying injustice.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) has been officially charged for assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement after being accused of assaulting two federal agents at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in New Jersey last month.

According to a new charging document, the ICE facility was stormed by McIver and two other New Jersey lawmakers before McIver allegedly assaulted a Homeland Security Investigations agent and an ICE agent.

The charging document also states that McIver “pushed an ICE officer and used her forearms to forcibly strike the agent.”

“Yes, congresswoman, nobody is above the law,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “Now, listen. Those on the left might say, ‘This is fascism, ‘Trump is literally Hitler,’ ‘This is just political games are being played.’”

“I would ask what, then, were the 91 indictments and the 34 felony counts of Donald Trump, not for, like, assaulting an ICE officer, not for impeding police and law enforcement, but for falsifying business records, which was a stretch, for the classified documents, which Joe Biden had in his garage where his crackhead son had access to,” she continues.

“All of these bogus things, and now, we have, what is it, the chickens coming home to roost,” she adds.

BlazeTV host Pat Gray is in full agreement.

“When you see the video, you know that she’s pushing around officers. You can easily make the assault case there, they would on any normal citizen,” Gray comments. “And we just heard a million times, ‘no one is above the law.’”

“So yeah, I don’t think they’ve got any room to complain on this,” he adds.

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Ed Martin, the
incoming Department of Justice pardon attorney and director of the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group, announced last week that he was looking into the questionable “autopen” pardons issued in the final days of the Biden White House. It turns out, however, that he began digging into the matter while still the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

Martin
revealed on Tuesday that his investigation into the use of the autopen has actually been underway for weeks; that he has reached out to members of the Biden family; that some persons of interest have “lawyered up”; and that a whistleblower has already come forward with some troubling allegations.

“I had a whistleblower in my office 10 day ago — senior, senior Democrat — saying, ‘Look, it was these three people that controlled access, and they were making money off of it,'” Martin told journalist Mark Halperin on the “2WAY Tonight” show. “I don’t know if I believe it yet, but the point is, I think, we have to get to the bottom of it for the American people and to protect the process, and that’s what we’re doing.”

Martin indicated that the whistleblower was involved with the 2020 Biden campaign at the highest levels.

‘There’s no question that Ed Martin is on the case.’

When pressed on the identity of the three alleged exploiters of the presidential autopen, Martin noted he had to answer carefully. Rather than explicitly identify potential abusers of the autopen, Martin provided Halperin with the names of “gatekeepers” who were “dominant characters in the White House.”

Martin identified the following three “gatekeepers”: Ron Klain, Biden’s White House chief of staff from 2021 to 2023 who
returned to the fold last year amid Biden’s debate preparation; former senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn; and Barack Obama’s former personal attorney Robert Bauer.

The DOJ’s pardon attorney subsequently threw two more names into the mix — Steve Ricchetti, former counselor to Biden who previously served as chairman of his 2020 presidential campaign, and “obviously Jill [Biden].”

Martin told Halperin that he asked the whistleblower about the involvement of Susan Rice or others, but “they said, ‘No, these were the ones.'”

RELATED: Justice is coming for Biden’s ‘autopen’ pardons — and Trump’s DOJ just put everyone on notice

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The Oversight Project
revealed in early March that Biden’s signature on numerous pardons, executive orders, and other documents of national consequence was likely machine-generated.

The watchdog group later confirmed that “the same exact Biden autopen signature” was used on the pardons for Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the Biden clan, and former members of the House
Jan. 6 select committee.

These revelations — in conjunction with reports of
staffers and family members making decisions on Biden’s behalf; evidence that Biden’s signature appeared on documents while he was on vacation; Biden’s alleged admission to having no recollection of a consequential January 2024 order to pause decisions on exports of liquefied natural gas; and a former Biden aide’s claim that a key Biden staffer was suspected of unilaterally making decisions to sign documents as the former president’s mental faculties declined — kicked off the firestorm that ultimately prompted the Trump administration to take a closer look.

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News, “There’s no question that Ed Martin is on the case. As both the pardon attorney and President Trump’s weaponization czar, he is uniquely positioned to answer the question everyone is asking, ‘Who was the president during the Biden years?'”

“We are thrilled that the president and Martin are taking up our autopen investigation with such zeal,” added Howell.

‘They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger.’

Blaze News reached out to the DOJ for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

Just hours before Martin shed additional light on the investigation underway, President Donald Trump
declared on Truth Social that those who exploited former President Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment and allegedly “took over the Autopen” were guilty of “TREASON at the Highest Level.”

“Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will,” wrote the president. “It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country, and go through the process we are going through now. It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen. They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger.”

‘This is the biggest scandal in American history.’

Trump added, “Something very severe should happen to these Treasonous Thugs that wanted to destroy our Country, but couldn’t, because I came along.”

RELATED: Joe Biden was a puppet, not a president. So who signed the pardons?

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Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.)
told Newsmax Tuesday that the House Oversight Committee will also look into autopen use in the Biden White House, stating, “We don’t believe Joe Biden knew what was going on.”

“We’re going to try to get to the bottom of this because this is the biggest scandal in American history,” said Comer. “Not only do you have a president whose family was on the take from our adversaries around the world, you also have a situation where some of those family members were possibly, and I would go even further and say, probably running the country.”

Lindy Li, a former Democratic strategist and fundraiser who served as a surrogate for failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris and worked for the 2020 Biden campaign,
identified a potential usurper earlier this year whose name Martin’s whistleblower appears to have omitted: Hunter Biden.

Li told the eponymous host of the “Shawn Ryan Show” podcast in February that after Joe Biden’s humiliating debate with Trump, Hunter Biden, Jill Biden, and a handful of other unelected senior advisers were effectively serving as a combined shadow president.

Li’s suspicions echoed those expressed by Trump to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck in October, namely that Joe Biden was effectively little more than a figurehead for a “committee” of unnamed bureaucrats.

Comer noted further Tuesday, “We don’t believe that autopen was authorized by Joe Biden.”

“We don’t believe that using the autopen makes these executive orders and even these pardons legal,” continued Comer. “We’re going to do this investigation. Hopefully, it will benefit Trump in court as he tries to do what the American people want done. And that’s drain the swamp.”

Editor’s note: Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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Numerous law enforcement agencies teamed up earlier this month in Florida to arrest more than 250 people as part of a human trafficking bust — and one of those arrested is a former NFL linebacker.

Homeland Security — along with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, and Lake County Sheriff’s Office — conducted an undercover mission called “Operation Fool Around and Find Out” from May 2 through May 10.

‘Obviously he must have hit one too many people as a linebacker, because his brain cells are scrambled.’

Former NFL linebacker Adarius Taylor was arrested during the sting. Police on May 8 allegedly captured Taylor on video discussing sexual behavior with an undercover officer posing as a prostitute.

However, the reported presence of Taylor’s 6-year-old son made the situation even worse.

RELATED: US attorney announces indictments against ‘prophet,’ wife for alleged sex trafficking, forced labor in alleged church scheme

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Taylor was alleged to have left his son in the car when he went into the site of the sting operation, and Taylor subsequently was arrested for felony negligent child abuse without bodily harm and misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution charges.

“Obviously he must have hit one too many people as a linebacker, because his brain cells are scrambled,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said about Taylor, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The Florida Department of Children and Families immediately took custody of the child.

In total, 141 people were charged with soliciting prostitutes, 93 were charged with offering to commit prostitution, and another 10 were charged with crimes such as aiding and abetting or transporting prostitutes. Furthermore, an additional 11 suspects were charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex or other child sex crimes.

Four people were identified as possible victims of human trafficking, while 36 of those arrested were illegal immigrants.

Offenders came from states all across the country, including Connecticut, Illinois, and New Jersey, while at least one person came from Brazil.

RELATED: LA Chargers rep shuts down CNN after outlet asks if animated promos are going ‘too far’: It’s okay to ‘make a joke’

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Sheriff Judd praised ICE and revealed that the Trump administration now allows his department to work alongside the federal agency.

“There’s been a change of administration … and now we are allowed to have ICE with us,” Judd said. “I can’t say enough good about ICE … they are hand in glove with us every day. They have a mission from the president of the United States.”

“A word to the wise,” Judd warned before commenting on ICE’s future operations. “There’ll be another one.”

Thomas played six seasons for the Panthers, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Cleveland Browns.

He finished his career with two sacks, three forced fumbles, one interception, and 144 tackles.

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A Homeland Security Investigations agent this week ran down details about last year’s raid on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ estate.

The testimony in the Manhattan sex trafficking and racketeering trial against Combs continued with HSI agent Gerard Gannon on Tuesday revealing what federal agents saw when they burst into the Miami property in 2024, using an armored vehicle to break through the hip-hop mogul’s front gate.

‘One of the weapons was reportedly found in Diddy’s master bedroom closet, along with lingerie and platform heels.’

Gannon was on the ground during the raid and acted as the special agent in charge due to his unit’s experience investigating human trafficking. The agent said between 80 and 90 personnel were involved in the search of Diddy’s 20,000 square-foot home on Star Island, which included tactical boat deployment to make certain there were no waterborne escapees.

The federal agent said loaded rifles were among a plethora of items in Diddy’s master bedroom, according to TMZ.

RELATED: Sex, drugs, and exploding cars: Cassie Ventura drops bombshell allegations against Diddy in sex trafficking trial

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Agents allegedly found loaded AR-15s with their serial numbers scratched off, sex toys, and Astroglide brand lubricant. One of the weapons reportedly was found in Diddy’s master bedroom closet, along with lingerie and platform heels.

The testimony came days after Cassie Ventura, Diddy’s former girlfriend and a recording artist under his label, said in court that she “only ever saw handguns” at his residences in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, and Alpine, New Jersey.

Ventura also testified that after releasing just one album through her 10-album deal on Diddy’s label, her “job” mostly became organizing the entrepreneur’s sex parties, dubbed “freak-offs.”

“The ‘freak-offs’ became a job, where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and feel normal again,” Ventura alleged.

RELATED: ‘He would bash me on my head’: Cassie Ventura testifies Diddy beat her, details ‘freak-offs’ with ‘dozens’ of prostitutes

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The testimony also revealed that during the time of the raid, Diddy was purposely caught outside after agents carefully monitored his movements and timed the arrest with his exit from the property for an alleged family vacation.

“I think they raided Diddy’s home to strip him of his power and leverage and blackmail material,” BlazeTV’s Jason Whitlock theorized.

Whitlock added, “All this is really about is taking away Diddy’s leverage and handing it over to the Department of Justice or whoever is responsible for this or stripping him of the most damaging information he had on key people that they don’t want harmed.”

RELATED: ‘These people are demons’: Day 1 of the Diddy trial has exposed rap culture

Federal prosecutors said they intended to call rapper Kid Cudi to the stand as a witness this week; Ventura testified that Diddy became enraged when he found out she was seeing him.

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Tensions are running high in Congress as the White House keeps pressuring fiscal conservatives to get on board with President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

Despite Trump’s Hail Mary pitch to Republicans, specifically fiscal conservatives, Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill, reconciliation talks seem to be going south. While the Rules Committee wraps up its overnight markup, Republicans are still looking for the off-ramp to get their bill passed.

The whole process has been consumed by Republican factions making incompatible demands. The SALT Caucus Republicans were offered a tentative, and very generous, $40,000 cap for state and local tax deductions. Meanwhile, some members of the House Freedom Caucus have pushed for earlier implementation of Medicaid work requirements.

Although both factions made progress toward their respective goals, it still seems like nobody is happy.

‘We’re going to work with our colleagues to deliver, but there’s a long way to go.’

RELATED: Trump pressures House Republican holdouts as reconciliation talks intensify

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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (R-Md.) and Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas have been two of the most outspoken voices within the conference advocating for fiscal responsibility. Although both acknowledged that moving work requirements to an earlier date rather than the original 2029 implementation was a step in the right direction, they remain unpersuaded by Republican leadership and even the president.

“Look, we are greatly encouraged by the progress that’s been made in the last 24 hours,” Harris said during a presser Wednesday. “… I’m not sure this can be done this week. I’m pretty confident it can be done in 10 days.”

“We’re going to work with the president today,” Roy said during the presser. “We’re going to work with our colleagues to deliver, but there’s a long way to go. I want to be very clear. We’ve got to deliver on what we’re talking about, but we’re not going to be able to get the bill done, and that’s what we’re trying to achieve.”

RELATED: Fiscal hawks send warning as ‘big, beautiful bill’ clears high-stakes vote: ‘We have to do more to deliver’

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Harris told reporters that they initially struck a deal with the White House last night but that they’ve since walked away from the agreement. A White House official countered the claim and said the administration offered Harris and other spending hawks an array of policy options that the president would allow on the condition that they are able to get the votes.

Trump is now set to meet face-to-face with the House Freedom Caucus and Republican leadership, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.). Notably, Emmer has not yet scheduled the floor vote as, the fate of Trump’s bill hangs in the balance.

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A Florida teacher is accused of engaging in an illicit sexual relationship with a student that authorities said amounts to a betrayal.

On Friday, 27-year-old Brooke Anderson was arrested after allegations of a sexual relationship with a student surfaced.

‘This teacher betrayed the trust of a student, a school, and an entire community.’

Anderson has been charged with three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor.

Citing booking records, People magazine reported that the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office booked Anderson into jail on Friday and that she was released the following day after a judge set her bail at $45,000 — $15,000 for each of the three counts.

Anderson is a science teacher at Riverview High School.

RELATED: Teacher accused of sex with special-needs student; allegedly gave boy fentanyl, told him to ‘shoot’ faculty member

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The student allegedly disclosed that the relationship with the teacher began in September 2024.

Police said the relationship started with sexually explicit text messages. However, the relationship reportedly escalated to physical encounters in the weeks leading up to the arrest.

The student claimed to have had multiple instances of sexual encounters with Anderson, according to police.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, “The most recent incident occurred the morning of May 16, inside Anderson’s classroom before the start of the school day.”

A few hours after the alleged sexual assault, police arrested Anderson.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister stated, “This teacher betrayed the trust of a student, a school, and an entire community.”

“What should have been a safe, supportive environment for learning was exploited for abuse,” Chronister added. “Her actions are criminal, calculated, and deeply disturbing.”

This investigation is ongoing, according to police.

Detectives monitored a phone call between the student and teacher on Friday, according to the affidavit obtained by the Tampa Bay Times. During the phone call, Anderson acknowledged the three instances of sexual encounters, the affidavit said.

RELATED: Former teacher of the year sentenced to 30 years in prison for grooming, sexually assaulting 2 elementary school students

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Anderson has worked at Riverview High School since she joined the Hillsborough County Public Schools district in November 2021.

A district spokesperson said Anderson passed all required screenings and background checks before being hired.

Anderson is no longer listed as a district staff member, according to an archived version of the district’s website.

Anderson has been suspended but faces termination pending an investigation’s findings.

Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at 813-247-8200.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met Wednesday with President Donald Trump and discussed various matters in the Oval Office. While the socialist leader sought to steer the conversation to other issues, including trade, Trump pressed him about the mistreatment and murder of white Afrikaner farmers, who are also known as Boers.

Ramaphosa, who recently ratified a land-confiscation law that could easily be weaponized against white farmers, suggested that if there were a genocide of Afrikaners under way, his ministers present with him in the Oval Office would have left their posts. He suggested further that Trump could benefit from hearing his ministers’ perspectives on the matter.

“We have thousands of stories talking about it, and we have documentaries. We have news stories,” said Trump, evidently not buying what Ramaphosa was selling. “It has to be responded to.”

Trump then had his team dim the lights and roll footage of the reality the South African president and elements of the Western liberal media are apparently keen to gloss over.

RELATED: Episcopal Church kills government partnership over request to resettle white Afrikaner refugees

With the South African president grinning uncomfortably beside him, Trump pointed at video showing thousands of white crosses stretching for miles along a roadside between Mokopane and Polokwane, South Africa, each commemorating farmers slain in recent years.

“It’s a terrible sight,” said Trump. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

— (@)

In another clip Trump played for the benefit of Ramaphosa and the doubting journalists in the room, South Africa’s Marxist-Leninist political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, could be seen chanting with a stadium full of people about butchering the ethnic Afrikaner minority. In the video, EFF leader Julius Malema sings, “Kill the Boer, [kill] the farmer.”

While Ramaphosa conceded that “there is criminality” in his country, he pushed back against Trump’s suggestion that he allows hateful groups to seize land from the Afrikaner famers.

“They kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them,” said Trump.

— (@)

“You’re taking people’s land away from them, and those people in many cases are being executed,” said Trump. “They happen to be white, and most of them happen to be farmers. How do you explain that?”

This is a developing story.

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Coinbase received an extortionary email asking for $20 million in ransom from hackers who said they had obtained private user data.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform said a May 11 message demanded the money in return for not publicly disclosing information that was obtained through Coinbase employees.

‘No passwords, private keys, or funds were exposed, and Coinbase Prime accounts are untouched.’

In a press release, Coinbase said “cyber criminals bribed and recruited” “rogue overseas support agents” to steal customer data in order to facilitate social engineering attacks.

Coinbase described the intrusion as only affecting a small subset of customers (less than 1%). However, this could still account for more than 1 million app users, given 2024 estimates that the company had ballooned to 105 million users, according to Business of Apps.

“No passwords, private keys, or funds were exposed, and Coinbase Prime accounts are untouched,” Coinbase noted. “We will reimburse customers who were tricked into sending funds to the attacker.”

While the company did its best to reassure its customers, a plethora of private information was swept up that users will not be happy about.

RELATED: Senate rejects cryptocurrency bill pushed by Treasury Sec. Bessent

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According to Coinbase, hackers were provided with user names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails. The last four digits of Social Security numbers, masked bank account numbers, images of government ID, and more were allegedly stolen as well.

Dean Gefen, CEO of cybersecurity firm NukuDo, told Blaze News that this kind of data breach has long-term effects that most will come to realize.

‘That kind of exposure isn’t just a privacy issue; it opens the door to phishing, identity theft, and long-term financial vulnerability. Most users won’t feel it today, but if that data gets sold or abused, the impact will remain for years.”

Gefen explained that the reason crypto account holders are so at risk is because they sit at the intersection of finance and emerging tech. These two sectors often move ahead at light speed and end up leaving security in the rearview mirror, hoping to catch up.

“Any company storing sensitive financial data needs to take this as sign to be on notice. Without the right people, training, and systems in place, this kind of breach is inevitable,” Gefen said.

RELATED: Florida teens allegedly kidnap Vegas man at gunpoint, ditch him in Arizona desert, steal $4 million in cryptocurrency heist

— (@)

When asked if this was just the cost of doing business at this scale, Gefen replied, “[Only] if we accept failure as normal.”

“We wouldn’t tolerate this kind of breach in a nuclear facility or defense system, so why would we accept it in our financial infrastructure?”

The cybersecurity expert added that bad actors from China, North Korea, and Russia are among the biggest threats who look at crypto platforms as attractive, decentralized targets.

Coinbase said that is working with “industry partners” and law enforcement to connect the dots, but instead of paying the ransom, it planned to establish a $20 million reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attackers.

The crooked insiders were allegedly “fired on the spot” and referred to “U.S. and international law enforcement.”

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A Senate report claims that President Joe Biden’s administration was aware for months about heart issues stemming from COVID-19 vaccines and purposely withheld the information from the public.

A report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said government officials knew as early as February 2021 about the harmful side effects but waited until June to inform the public of the inherent dangers.

‘The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men.’

The report revealed that U.S. health officials “knew about the risks” the vaccines carried related to myocarditis, inflammation of heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, but “downplayed the health concern” and “delayed informing the public about the risk.”

RELATED: HHS scrapping COVID jab recommendations for pregnant moms and kids: Report

The report, first obtained by the Daily Wire, showed that the U.S. government ignored warnings from several sources.

In February 2021, U.S. entities were notified of adverse effects by the Israeli Ministry of Health, as the country rolled out vaccines faster than America did. Still, CDC officials declined to make public the “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine.”

It is unclear whether the Israeli government made an effort to notify the public, either.

That same month, a CDC official who co-led the Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group emailed her colleagues about 19,536 vaccine adverse event reports (through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) that included 980 deaths after vaccination.

“Where known, the cause of death was often cardiovascular,” the report read.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told the Daily Wire that the Biden administration did not want to increase “vaccine hesitancy” by reporting the side effects openly.

“But in being concerned about that, they violated the inviolable principle of informed consent,” Johnson told the outlet. “The federal government was very well aware of the myocarditis signal, particularly in young men, as early as February [2021].”

RELATED: New documentary reveals heartbreaking COVID vaccine stories they kept secret

In May 2021, the CDC omitted information from its “clinical considerations” on its website that advised doctors to restrict patients with myocarditis from “rigorous activity like competitive sports for at least 3 months.”

The report also said that in June 2021, the White House distributed talking points to U.S. health officials “downplaying the risk of myocarditis.”

“The depths of depravity of this cover-up keep getting deeper. They knew about vaccine side effects early on but withheld that information as they continued to push emergency use authorization even as young people were dying,” BlazeTV’s Matt Kibbe said about the report.

Kibbe added, “This scandal is ultimately about self-dealing between government bureaucrats and pharmaceutical companies, who all had financial incentives to bury the truth and keep pushing the vaccines.”

Blaze News reached out to the National Institutes of Health and Health and Human Services for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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The high-profile Karen Read murder trial resumed on Monday with key forensic testimony after the judge allowed the prosecution to present new evidence. The much-ballyhooed murder trial entered its fifth week, marking the 18th day of testimony.

This is the second trial for Read regarding the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe. A “deeply divided” jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the first trial.

‘John, I f***ing hate you.’

A mistrial was declared on July 1, 2024.

Read — a 45-year-old former Bentley University adjunct professor — faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol, and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. Read has pleaded not guilty to all of the criminal charges.

Read is accused of killing O’Keefe, her then-boyfriend, in January 2022.

RELATED: Teacher tried to hire student to murder husband — but student’s mom foiled $2,000 plot: Court docs

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Read and O’Keefe reportedly went to a bar and restaurant on Jan. 28. There was a heavy snowstorm that night.

The group of friends allegedly returned to Boston police officer Brian Albert’s home in Canton.

According to court documents obtained by CBS News, Read left a voicemail with O’Keefe around 1 a.m. on Jan. 29 in which she allegedly said: “You are a f***ing loser, f*** yourself” and “John, I f***ing hate you.”

Around 4 a.m., Read was “distraught” because O’Keefe had not returned home and was not answering his cell phone, according to court documents.

‘How long to die in cold.’

Read called O’Keefe’s niece, Jennifer McCabe, and allegedly was screaming, “John didn’t come home. We had a fight.”

Around 5 a.m., Read called a woman whose husband was friends with O’Keefe.

During the search, Read reportedly said: “What if he’s dead? What if a plow hit him? … I don’t remember anything from last night, we drank so much I don’t remember anything.”

Around 6 a.m., Read allegedly found O’Keefe lying in the snow outside Albert’s home.

According to prosecutors, a hysterical Read frantically called 911 and repeatedly told the emergency responder, “I hit him. I hit him.”

The defense pointed to a Google search allegedly conducted on McCabe’s phone for “How long to die in cold,” which they claim occurred at 2:27 a.m. — before O’Keefe’s body was found. However, prosecutors contend the Google search was conducted around 6:23 a.m.

Alan Jackson, an attorney for Read, claimed O’Keefe was killed during a fight inside Albert’s home, and then his body was dragged outside and left on the snow-covered lawn.

In addition to Brian Albert, others in attendance at the party were Brian’s brother Kevin Albert — a Canton Police Department detective — as well as former Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz — who died in December — and Brian Higgins, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agent.

Prosecutors accused Higgins of exchanging “flirty” text messages with Read in the weeks leading up to O’Keefe’s death.

RELATED: ‘Haunt me the rest of my life’: Father reportedly kills family and himself in murder-suicide on same day as son’s graduation

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Prosecutors allege that Read hit O’Keefe with her car and left him to die in the snow while she was intoxicated. A forensic toxicologist estimated that Read’s blood alcohol content would have been between 0.13 and 0.29, exceeding the legal limit.

The medical examiner determined that O’Keefe’s cause of death was blunt impact injuries to the head and hypothermia. Prosecutors noted that the medical examiner did not find “any obvious signs of an altercation or a fight.”

Defense attorney Alan Jackson argued, “The damage on the car was inconsistent with having made contact with John O’Keefe’s body. In other words, the car didn’t hit him, and he wasn’t hit by the car.”

O’Keefe had scratches on his arms, which the defense argued were from an attack by Albert’s dog.

‘Hopefully she kills herself.’

Investigators discovered broken glass at the alleged crime scene, and the taillight was cracked on Read’s Lexus SUV.

Detectives also found a hair on the bumper of Read’s SUV.

Karl Miyasako of Bode Technology testified Monday in court about the hair, saying that “based on the genetic data” over 99.8% of the population could be excluded — but Miyasako “could not exclude” O’Keefe or his maternal relatives as the source of the hair, the Boston Herald reported.

Defense attorney Alan Jackson countered, “For all you know that hair could have been placed where it was found by somebody else.”

Investigators also obtained an “extract from a taillight” to test, and Nick Bradford — also with Bode Technology — said O’Keefe could not be excluded as a potential contributor to the profile found on the taillight, according to CBS News.

Forensic analyst Shannon Burgess from Aperture LLC also testified Monday about data from Read’s SUV, saying that her vehicle was powered on at 12:12:36 a.m. on Jan. 29 and “not powered off” until 12:42:08 a.m. Then, there was activity again on Read’s vehicle at 5:07:46 a.m. and 5:46:20 a.m.

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In the first trial, defense attorneys asked Massachusetts State Police investigator Michael Proctor to read damning text messages he sent to friends and colleagues while looking into O’Keefe’s mysterious death.

Proctor allegedly said of Read in one message, “Hopefully she kills herself.”

Proctor was fired two months ago.

Mark Bederow — a criminal defense attorney and former Manhattan assistant district attorney — told Blaze News that “there is nothing normal about this deeply flawed case. The conduct of the Canton Police and Massachusetts State Police in the investigation into the death of a police officer was dreadful.”

Bederow also told Blaze News regarding Proctor that “the prosecution is simply ignoring that the lead investigator was terminated because of his alleged bias in the investigation.”

“They are ignoring that independent accident reconstruction experts hired by the DOJ entirely support the defense’s contention that John O’Keefe was not killed in a vehicle strike,” Bederow also told Blaze News. “They are ignoring that their own medical examiner refused to call O’Keefe’s death a homicide, instead ruling the manner of death of undetermined.”

But not everyone is as convinced as Bederow. Local radio host John DePetro believes the prosecution is presenting a much stronger case, and he told Blaze News that the retrial is “much different” than the first trial.

“Special prosecutor Hank Brennan is in complete command in the courtroom and has streamlined the case,” DePetro added to Blaze News.

DePetro also told Blaze News that in addition to Read’s “angry voicemails” played in the courtroom, on other audio clips “she discusses drinking … and flirting with Brian Higgins. [The] jury has no reason to like Karen Read.”

He also warned, “Many of her interviews have come back to haunt her.”

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Social media has a way of humorously exposing humanity’s peculiarities. Using memes, reels, and trending audio, we love to make fun of ourselves.

One trend that’s been going strong for a while now exposes our strange obsession with true crime documentaries, books, and podcasts. There’s no telling how many thousands of Instagram reels and TikToks out there poke fun at normal people pounding popcorn while bingeing a series on Ted Bundy, for example.

Initially, it’s kind of funny. But a deeper consideration reveals a dark question: Why are we so drawn to serial killer stories? What is it about brutality, bloodthirst, and murder that attracts us?

This is one of many subjects author and Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan touches on in his new book, “The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.”

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Klaven and Allie Beth Stuckey unpacked this grim query.

While you might think that the duo arrive at an equally grim conclusion, they don’t. Peeling back the layers of this obsession with true crime leads to a paradoxically optimistic verdict: We are captivated by the collision of darkness and the moral order.

In an age when reading, especially the classics, is a dying practice, true crime fills the gap that dark literature used to fill.

Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” or even the biblical account of Cain’s treachery against his brother Abel are all tales that hinge on murder and betrayal. These stories, Klaven says, explore darkness “within that moral order.” Our instinctive recoiling at the murder of an innocent, for example, shatters the atheistic idea of moral relativism, which can actually lead us to God — the source of truth.

Ultimately, “that’s what people are looking for in crime,” he tells Allie. “Murder is the place where everybody says, ‘Yes, that is evil'” because there is something in us that understands “the sanctity of the human person.”

But is true crime a good substitute for dark literature?

Not exactly, says Klaven.

“I think that people would be better off if they were reading Dostoevsky more and maybe being titillated by true crimes a little less,” because “it’s when the mind and heart and soul of the artist engage with murder that we see it become something beautiful in this larger context, which is what I think God is doing with the world itself,” he says.

Allie then brings up another good point: Unlike thought-provoking literature that invites us to explore the human condition, true crime often leads to “fear and paranoia.”

“There is some sort of balance between looking at darkness, recognizing it for the objective evil that it is, [contrasting] it to God’s goodness, and constantly dwelling on the darkness,” she says, citing Philippians 4:8, which encourages readers to focus their thoughts on what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and praiseworthy.

While not denying the truth of the verse, Klavan says that Philippians 4:8 is not synonymous with the “You Can Fly!” song from Peter Pan, which features the lyric “Now, think of the happiest things / It’s the same as having wings.”

“You have to remember that Peter Pan never grows up, and if your faith never becomes the faith of a grown-up person, it’s not going to stand up very well when you come into contact with the things that really do happen in this world — not just the evil, but also the suffering, the cruelty,” he says. “We believe in a God who was crucified … that’s a very, very tragic truth, and yet the very deepest thing that God does for us is contained within that crucifixion.”

“One of the first things it says in Philippians is meditate and dwell on what is true, and what is true is all the beauty we experience, all the good that we experience, all the God that we experience takes place in this very dark world,” he continues.

The best Christian art, he argues, pointing to Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Mozart, and Bach, dealt with the kind of “sorrow and darkness and pain and suffering that Christianity was meant to address.”

However, even non-Christians unknowingly do this. “Many writers who have no faith have produced beautiful works that speak of God because I think any time you tell the truth, you’re going to speak of God,” says Klaven. “The arts convey [and] transform this evil and this darkness into a source of light, and I think that that is a beautiful thing.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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A massive brawl went down at a New Jersey shopping mall Saturday night featuring 300 teenagers running amok, fighting each other — and even tangling with police, WABC-TV reported.

Turns out a TikTok influencer days before told his followers about the “meetup” at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, the station said — and wouldn’t you know the kids just couldn’t help themselves and followed the crowd?

‘Parents need to be focused on their kids, making sure they’re not causing this kind of rowdiness in other towns.’

Edison police said the chaos and violence ensued not long after the teens started filling up the mall around 8 p.m.

“They were having a brawl; they were pushing and shoving,” Chief Thomas Bryan with the Edison Police Department told WABC. “When our officers arrived, they actually started fighting with our officers.”

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A ‘Celebrate Police Appreciation Week’ sign is displayed alongside an Edison police car — in the Menlo Park Mall.Image source: Edison Township Police

You can view a collection of cellphone clips here showing much of the action.

In addition, at the 46-second mark of the above video — and at the 1:15 mark of the YouTube video below — officers are seen holding what appear to be rifles. Blaze News on Wednesday morning spoke with Chief Bryan, who said police originally were called about an active shooter at the mall and that there were “gunshots fired.” Therefore, Bryan told Blaze News, police had to come prepared for that, which is why officers are seen with rifles amid the mall brawl.

One officer was injured, WABC said, adding that the throng was so out of control that police from surrounding municipalities responded as well; cops needed about an hour and a half to break things up.

Police told News 12 New Jersey that six teens were arrested for disorderly persons charges as well as failure to disperse; one suspect was charged with assaulting a police officer.

All of the juveniles were eventually released to their parents, NJN said.

Edison Mayor Sam Joshi blasted those same parents during a Monday news conference; NJN said parents likely drove many of their teenage children to the mall for the meetup.

“What are the parents doing? Aren’t the parents aware that they’re traveling 45 minutes to cause a disturbance within Edison Township?” Joshi asked, according to WABC. “It makes no sense. Parents need to be focused on their kids, making sure they’re not causing this kind of rowdiness in other towns.”

Edison police also are looking into possible charges for the TikToker who posted the original “meetup” video telling his followers to go to the Menlo Park Mall, NJN reported.

Police told NJN there was no property damage.

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