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The Washington Post announced that it would follow the example of the Los Angeles Times and not endorse a presidential candidate, and many on the left imploded with fury and anger.

‘Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.’

William Lewis, the CEO and publisher of the Post, wrote that the news outlet would be returning to its previous tradition of refusing to endorse presidential candidates in order to preserve its independence.

“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” wrote Lewis.

Critics immediately accused Lewis of bowing to alleged pressure from Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, ostensibly under the threat of government pressure if former President Donald Trump were to be re-elected.

Many rushed to social media to declaim the Post for bowing to fascism and intimidation.

“This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage,” replied Marty Baron, the former editor for the Post.

“The Washington Post is the paper which broke Watergate. It won a Pulitzer for coverage of January 6th. For the Washington Post to refuse to endorse a candidate because it fears retribution from Trump is an enormous flashing red sign that the country is on the brink of fascism,” responded musician Mikel Jollett.

“The paper that broke Watergate? Something is broken. This is not normal,” replied former music journalist Cheo Hodari Coker.

“It appears the owners have been intimidated by a potential authoritarian president. Democracy under threat? You bet,” said WPVI-TV anchor Jim Garner.

“I have subscribed to the Washington Post since 1993, but I just canceled my subscription today because of the paper’s abdication of duty to endorse a candidate in the most consequential election of my lifetime. Good riddance,” said social justice activist Keith Boykin.

“Anyone who chooses to stay at the Washington Post after this terrible act is actively helping bring about Fascism,” read another tweet.

A similar implosion ensued after the owner of the Los Angeles Times told the editorial staff to list good and bad policies from both candidates in lieu of an endorsement. One editor has quit in protest, and readers have canceled subscriptions to show their displeasure.

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Arizona police commended a teen girl for her quick wits that helped land a potential sexual predator behind bars.

The 14-year-old girl was walking home from school on Oct. 16 when 37-year-old Isaiah Navarro approached her, according to a statement from the Glendale Police Department.

‘Navarro arrived at the location but instead of the 14-year-old young lady, Navarro met up with some handcuffs and was placed under arrest.’

Police obtained Ring security video that shows the teen walking across the street in a residential neighborhood when Navarro was inside his car and started a conversation with the girl.

The teen told police Navarro asked her where the closest McDonald’s was located. She gave him an answer.

Then, the man allegedly asked for the girl’s phone number. The quick-thinking teen wisely provided her mother’s cell phone number instead of her own.

Once the teen told her mother what had happened, the mom got law enforcement involved.

Navarro allegedly began texting the number — not knowing he was talking to detectives and not the 14-year-old girl.

Glendale detectives posed as the underage girl and allegedly communicated with the suspect through text messages from the mother’s cell phone.

The police shared alleged screenshots of the text message conversation.

When asked how old he was, Navarro reportedly said he was 37 years old.

He then allegedly asked, “Is that OK?”

Detectives responded: “I’m a minor.”

Police purportedly wrote to the man, “My mom will get so mad so will my dad. I’m only 14.”

Navarro reportedly replied, “Maybe one day. Can you keep our convo between me and you?”

Navarro allegedly requested photos of the 14-year-old girl.

“The conversation became more and more graphic with Navarro describing and asking for specific sex acts, without any regard for the age of the victim,” police said.

Police added that Navarro “invited the victim to perform sexual acts with him.”

Navarro repeatedly asked to meet up with the girl and reportedly called the number up to 30 times.

Detectives set up a place and a time to meet, and Navarro allegedly went there a few hours later.

“Navarro arrived at the location but instead of the 14-year-old young lady, Navarro met up with some handcuffs and was placed under arrest,” the police said.

Navarro was arrested on the spot. The accused pedophile was booked into the Maricopa County Jail and is facing charges of luring a minor for sexual exploitation and attempting to commit sexual conduct with a minor.

He’s being held on a $250,000 bond.

“Here is a prime example of a young lady who thought quickly on her feet and did the right thing,” police said. “We at the Glendale Police Department commend this young lady for her bravery and her smart thinking!”

Police are urging anyone who’s had a similar encounter with the suspect to contact detectives at 623-930-3000.

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On Thursday evening, the Dallas County Elections Department seemingly made quiet modifications to online sample ballots following allegations that the downloadable PDFs were, in fact, actual voter ballots.

Barry Wernick, a Republican running for Texas House District 108, filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state on Tuesday after he claimed he discovered his actual ballot was posted online, Blaze News previously reported. He stated that anyone with a Dallas County voter’s first and last name and date of birth could pull up a downloadable, printable ballot.

‘Not locked, encrypted, or watermarked in any way.’

Wernick explained that when trying to view his sample ballot on the DCED’s website, he was redirected to Clarity Elections, an election night reporting portal operated by SOE Software.

“After clicking on the link & being transferred to the Clarity Elections portal, instead of seeing a sample ballot, I viewed a downloadable & printable .pdf file of my actual die-cut mail-in ballot with a colored stamp of the initials (HG) of Election Administrator Heider Garcia,” Wernick stated.

A screenshot of Wernick’s supposed sample ballot featured Garcia’s initials at the bottom corner and time marks in the margins. He noted that the ballot was “not locked, encrypted, or watermarked in any way.”

Wernick warned that someone could “easily and legally print out or digitally manipulate that voter’s ballot” and then “illegally and potentially surreptitiously inject it into the system thereby disenfranchising and diluting” voters.

On Thursday morning, Blaze News replicated Wernick’s process to access his ballot by using the information of another Texas voter, a Blaze Media employee who lives in Dallas County, producing identical results. The online ballot did not have a “sample” watermark; it included timing marks and featured Garcia’s signed initials, just like Wernick’s.

However, Blaze News repeated the process on Thursday evening, yielding a different result. This time, the Texas voter’s ballot included a “sample” watermark and did not have any signed initials at the bottom.

Before Thursday evening:

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After Thursday evening:

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The DCED did not respond to requests for comment.

The Texas secretary of state told Blaze News, “I cannot speak to any formal election complaints because that information is considered private.”

“I can point out that printing a sample ballot does not provide a means for it to be inserted into the election process as there are checks for ballots both for in-person voting and voting by mail. There is not a way for voters to use a sample ballot in place of a regular ballot,” the secretary of state stated.

SOE Software President Jonathan Brill told Blaze News, “I am only aware of this matter from your email, and I haven’t directly connected with the Dallas County Elections.”

“I can tell you, however, that our software is not built for, nor does it have anything to do with voted ballots whatsoever, including tabulation,” Brill continued. “Rather, we created and host Dallas County Election’s website (including showing SAMPLE ballots) and then facilitate the reporting of results on Election Night. Said more simply, we have nothing to do with live ballots. Our system only presents sample ballots.”

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In the summer of 2023, actor and musician Jamie Foxx came down with a mysterious illness that very nearly killed him.

In July, after it was determined that he had narrowly escaped death, a pale, sickly-looking Foxx released a tearful video letting the public know that he was okay but traumatized.

“I’ve been to hell and back,” he said, before thanking his family, medical team, and God.

Foxx never would say what it was that nearly took his life, leaving many speculating that his illness was due to taking the COVID vaccine, which could not be questioned or criticized at the time due to the collusion between the federal government, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. The approved narrative was that Foxx had a stroke.

However, a new story has since emerged. In the wake of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest, a celebrity bodyguard who goes by the name of Big Homie.CC has reported that Foxx’s near-death experience was due to Diddy poisoning him. Apparently, Foxx then reported him to the FBI.

¼ Black Garrett, Angela Boggs, and Derek Richards, filling in for Dave Landau, bring equal parts humor and analysis to the disturbing news.

“‘In a shocking interview with Cam Capone News, celebrity bodyguard Big Homie, which by the way is the name on his driver’s license in case you’re curious, “made bold accusations against music mogul Diddy, alleging that Diddy poisoned actor Jamie Foxx,’” says Richards, reading from a report.

In a YouTube video that dropped last week, Big Homie stated the following: “Well, I know [Diddy] poisoned Jamie Foxx, and Jamie Foxx reported him to the FBI because of it. I know that’s a fact.”

When questioned whether Foxx’s mysterious illness was due to this alleged poisoning, Big Homie confirmed yes – Foxx’s 20-day stint in the hospital and three-month hiatus from the public eye was indeed a result of being poisoned by Combs.

Angela then points to “Brittany Murphy and [Diddy’s] ex-wife,” Kim Porter, and several others who “have died of pneumonia who were involved with [Diddy].”

“Actually one of the causes of pneumonia is breathing in baby oil,” she says.

When Diddy’s home was raided by the FBI, 1,000 bottles of baby oil were found. Could it be that they were also poisoned by Diddy in a different way?

“All my freak parties have coconut oil – organic from Whole Foods,” Richards jokes.

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

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Microsoft’s 2024 diversity and inclusion report highlights race- and sexuality-based programs dating back to the 1980s.

The report begins with the chief diversity officer stating that the company’s inclusivity mission aims to empower “every person and every organization on the planet” to achieve more.

These vague platitudes were followed with a list of disturbing initiatives that started as early as 1985.

This included naming a “diversity director,” establishing a “minority student day,” and even race-based employee groups such as “Blacks at Microsoft,” all in the 1980s.

Along with groups for gays, women, and Asians, Microsoft bragged that since 1989, it has been “promoting LGBTQIA+ inclusion.”

Between 1996 and 2006, Microsoft infused its progressive beliefs into politics by partnering with organizations like the United Nations and the Human Rights Campaign.

The HRC is an adamant supporter of transgender surgeries for minors. Microsoft boasted that in 2005, it achieved a perfect score on the HRC’s Equality Index.

“We donated over $1 million (including company match) to 220 nonprofits supporting LGBTQIA+ communities worldwide, totaling over $16.3 million in all-time donations to these organizations,” Microsoft wrote.

During this time period, Microsoft said it also offered “gender-affirming benefits” to U.S. employees.

The report stretched its claims of inclusion by reporting on generic, nonspecific woke viewpoints within the company. For example, Microsoft reported that 83.5% of its employees agreed or strongly agreed that they have seen coworkers “demonstrate allyship in the workplace.”

Other statistics showed a 2.3% year-over-year increase in groupthink (78.9% to 81.2%) regarding “diversity” being “critical” to the company’s success.

‘We believe gaming should be inclusive of all, accessible to all, and safe for all.’

Some of Microsoft’s other initiatives are even more troubling, including “hiring inclusively” and “supplier diversity.”

Described as partnerships that intend to “increase opportunities for communities,” “diversity” in this sense is not really explained.

Glenda Dengah, director of supplier diversity, is quoted as saying the supply program is about “cultivating enduring partnerships” from “the diverse communities we represent.”

Microsoft also claimed, using uncited research, that 71% of gamers think it’s very important to have diverse characters and content. Again, these terms were not defined.

“We believe gaming should be inclusive of all, accessible to all, and safe for all,” the company wrote.

Despite this claim, diversity-driven games have failed to capture audiences, with several big-budget games tanking in 2024 within just days of their release.

While the report was still published, it is important to note that Microsoft quietly laid off a diversity, equity, and inclusion team in July but insisted its commitment to diversity is “unwavering.”

Blaze News reached out to a spokesperson representing Microsoft to discuss what “hiring inclusively” means, what “supplier diversity” means, and where its video game-related research came from.

The spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment despite initiating contact and sending the report.

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At 57 years old, Jason Whitlock just cast his very first political ballot ever.

“I know many of you for several years have been disappointed with the fact that I’ve chosen not to vote,” he says, noting that in previous political elections, he’s either been uninterested, too concerned about being “objective,” or against any type of label being placed on him.

“I don’t want to acknowledge in any way that another man or a political group is responsible for my fate or really has any influence over my fate, and that’s the position I’ve held for a number of years,” he admits, adding that “it got even more intense as I got further along in my Christian journey.”

“I don’t want an identity outside of Christ,” and that includes labels like “Republican,” “conservative,” “liberal,” and “Democrat,” he says. “Conservatives, liberals, Republicans, Democrats — they all lie; they all cheat people, [but] as a Christian, you’re not supposed to, and so you can hold me to that standard.”

But then something started to shift when Donald Trump and the MAGA movement entered the picture.

In 2016, Whitlock found himself “captured” by this mega-rich non-politician who was “more difficult to control,” but he still didn’t vote because he was devoted to his “brand [as a] non-voting, objective journalist.” Four years later, when Trump ran for re-election, Whitlock was a full-blown Trump supporter but still remained loyal to his decision to refrain from voting.

The catalyst that finally made him change his mind was January 6, 2021.

“January 6, 2021, changed me on that day,” he says.

When he saw that the many unarmed people who “went to the Capital to express their frustration” were being deemed “terrorists” and then given “lengthy prison sentences” — even though just months before, BLM protesters literally burned cities to the ground largely without consequence — he knew the Democrats had been captured by an ideology that can only be described as evil.

“I started thinking about all these people that are in prison being treated unfairly for January 6 and all the people that are free that burned and looted cities,” he recalls. “I gotta do something to help the people — the political prisoners of January 6 — and the only thing I could think to do is vote for Donald Trump because he would pardon them.”

However, that was nearly four years ago. In the interim, there’s something else that’s been motivating Jason to head to the ballot box: DEI.

“I want DEI to end because I think it’s one of the most poisonous, toxic, destructive things we have going on in America,” he says.

To hear more of his explanation, watch the clip above.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is breaking theoretical glass ceilings with the inclusion of a nonbinary character for the first time in its series.

The character named Volta Rossi is of Italian descent and described as “a street-smart rogue with a blue-blood pedigree.”

“Volta Rossi is an enigma who left the comfort of aristocracy to forge a new name as a [human intelligence] specialist,” the game explains.

As reported by the Gamer, Rossi is the only character that uses they/them pronouns in its description.

“Their ties to the Luttazzi family give them unique insight into Avalon,” the caption reads.

Other character descriptions use he/him and she/her, marking a likely intentional move by developer Activision.

Photos of the character online show a strange, sparse-eyed individual, which aligns with the modern reimagining of femineity that major studios have typically adopted in recent years. Female characters have increasingly been designed to be unattractive, using traits such as masculine jawlines and figures, sometimes coupled with obesity.

Some have argued that the new character is a natural progression from Agent Bell, who appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, which was released in 2020.

The character’s origin was purposely left open-ended, leaving it to the user to decide their birthplace and gender.

For gender options, gamers could select male, female, nonbinary, or “classified.”

Outlets pointed out that when using the nonbinary or classified options, the character did not make any noises when getting injured for some reason.

With an October 25 release, it’s difficult to predict how this news may affect sales.

Given how hard big-budget games have suffered in 2024 once fans become aware developers are pushing diversity-driven story arcs, the move seems to be a big risk for studio Treyarch.

For example, Sony’s Concord lost approximately $100 million after closing shop following just 14 days online. The game was highly criticized for morbidly obese characters and the excessive use of pronouns.

“Even the robot has pronouns,” gamer Kabrutus, owner of DEI Detected, said in a review at the time. The writer showed off an image of a robot in the game that had “he/him” pronouns on the character select screen.

However, given the young age of the Call of Duty fanbase and the massive success of the franchise, the brand may be too big to fail.

According to Variety, Call of Duty: Black Ops IV pulled over $500 million in its first three days of release in 2018, which was about the same as its predecessor.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War sold approximately 5.7 million copies in its first month, GameRant reported.

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Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced an investigation into allegations against Google that the search engine’s algorithm is biased, censoring conservative speech to influence the election.

‘I will not allow Google to interfere in the most consequential election in our nation’s history.’

Bailey made the announcement from his official social media account on the X platform Friday.

“I am launching an investigation into Google – the biggest search engine in America – for censoring conservative speech during the most consequential election in our nation’s history. Google is waging war on the democratic process. It’s time to fight back,” Bailey said.

Google has been accused of biased search results after the failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. The claims led Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas to announce a congressional investigation into the company in July.

Trump has said that, if he were re-elected, he would order the Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges against Google on the basis that its search engine presents negative stories about him and positive stories about Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris.

“We have reason to believe that Google is manipulating their search results to de-emphasize information about the Trump campaign prior to Election Day,” Bailey said to Fox Business. “I will not allow Google to interfere in the most consequential election in our nation’s history.”

The company responded in a statement denying the claims and asserting that its search results are nonpartisan according to independent studies.

“Search serves all our users, and our business rests on showing useful information to everyone — no matter what their political beliefs are,” the statement read.

Researcher Robert Epstein has previously reported evidence he’s documented to show that Google’s search engine is biased in favor of Democrats. Epstein, the former editor of Psychology Today, described the “search engine manipulation effect” to Blaze News:

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Epstein found that Google’s autocomplete consistently favored positive suggestions for Hillary Clinton while allowing both positive and negative suggestions for Donald Trump. His studies showed that users are much more likely to click on negative suggestions, meaning that Google’s skewed suggestions had a profound effect on how voters viewed the candidates. The reality is, Google’s bias may not have been enough to get Clinton elected, but it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying.

“We won’t allow Big Tech to interfere with this election,” said Bailey in another tweet.

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President Joe Biden’s “lock him up” remark against Donald Trump this week has prompted the former president’s legal team to file a motion to dismiss the ongoing federal case against him.

On Tuesday, while campaigning in New Hampshire for Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden told a group of supporters that Trump believes the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling gives him the authority to “actually eliminate, physically eliminate, shoot, kill someone who he believes to be a threat to him.”

‘This unjust case was dead on arrival.’

“I mean, so I know this sounds bizarre, it sounds like I said this five years ago, he’d lock me up,” Biden stated.

“We gotta lock him up,” the president declared.

Moments later, Biden attempted to backpedal, adding, “Politically, lock him up — lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do.”

On Thursday, Trump’s legal team filed a motion to dismiss the federal case that claims he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In the motion, his lawyers pointed to Biden’s Tuesday comments as evidence that the case is nothing more than a political vendetta.

Trump’s legal team wrote, “The proposed motion establishes that this unjust case was dead on arrival — unconstitutional even before its inception.”

His attorneys further alleged that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unlawful because it circumvented Congress.

“In November 2022, the Attorney General [Merrick Garland] violated the Appointments Clause by naming private-citizen Smith to target President Trump, while President Trump was campaigning to take back the Oval Office from the Attorney General’s boss, without a statutory basis for doing so,” the motion continued.

Trump’s attorneys argued, “Garland did so following improper public urging from President Biden to target President Trump, as reported at the time in 2022, and repeated recently by President Biden through his inappropriate instruction to ‘lock him up’ while Smith presses forward with the case unlawfully as the Presidential election rapidly approaches.”

Last week, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s request to delay Smith’s public release of additional documents pertaining to the case.

Trump’s lawyers contended that the documents’ release could amount to election interference with the upcoming presidential election just weeks away. However, Chutkan ruled that not releasing the records could “constitute — or appear to be — election interference.”

Smith’s other federal case against Trump was dismissed in July after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that his appointment was unlawful.

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney Heather Adams announced Friday that investigators have uncovered evidence of what appears to be a “large scale” voter fraud campaign.

The Republican DA indicated during a press conference that the county’s chief clerk of elections and registrar of voter registration, Christa Miller, contacted her earlier in the week regarding what appeared to be fraudulent voter registration applications received by her office.

County commissioner Ray D’Agostino, the chairman of the Lancaster County Board of Elections, confirmed that two separate drop batches, amounting altogether to roughly 2,500 completed applications, were dumped off by individuals near the county’s elections office around the time of the Monday deadline.

According to the DA, when preparing to enter the forms into the Statewide Uniform Registry, “staff noticed that numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day with unknown signatures, and some were previously registered voters and the signatures on file did not match the signatures on the applications.”

Adams indicated that in their review so far, investigators have found signs of fraud affecting 60% of the registrations.

The issues encountered have included inaccuracies with the addresses listed on the applications; false personal identifying information, including false names; and inconsistencies between Social Security information and names. While the identifying information on other suspect applications appeared to be correct, the corresponding residents confirmed that they had not requested or completed the forms, and further, that the signatures on the forms were not theirs.

‘Our systems worked.’

While most of the applications were supposedly from Lancaster residents, Adams indicated there were also questionable applications received from residents in various other locations including Strasburg, Akron, Ephrata, and Mount Joy.

D’Agostino indicated that the applications from the questionable batches are undergoing an extensive multi-step review and that those deemed eligible will be processed.

“At this point, it is believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large scale canvassing operation for voter registrations that date back to June,” said Adams. “However, the majority of the applications received are dated August 15 and after.”

Adams said that the investigation is ongoing and that she will not comment on who may have dropped off the applications.

The board of elections noted in a statement, “Our Lancaster County Elections system is secure. Our systems worked. We will continue to operate with the highest levels of veracity, integrity, and transparency so that Lancaster County voters can be confident in our election.”

President Donald Trump beat President Joe Biden in Lancaster County by over 44,000 votes in 2020.

According to Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight polling, Trump presently has a slight edge over Harris in Pennsylvania.

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Arizona police said they were quickly able to identify and arrest a man who allegedly damaged voter ballots by lighting a mailbox on fire, but he has denied being motivated by politics.

‘Ballot abuse is a felony in Arizona, and mailbox vandalism is a federal crime.’

The Phoenix Fire Department responded to a fire reported in the early morning on Thursday at a drive-up mail collection box. They said an unknown man lit a fire inside the box at about 1:30 a.m. and then fled the area.

“Approximately 20 electoral ballots were damaged, along with additional miscellaneous mail,” said officials of the Phoenix Fire Department.

A postal inspector took possession of the damaged mail, including the ballots.

Police said that surveillance video led to the arrest of a 35-year-old man who allegedly told them he “wanted to be arrested” and denied having any political motivation for damaging ballots among the mail.

A USPS spokesperson and postal inspector said that such instances are rare.

“Postal Inspectors are working with the local election commission to ensure any affected election mail is remedied and that other mail is routed to the appropriate parties,” read a statement from the USPS.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said that officials were working to make sure voters whose ballots were damaged could recast their votes.

“Thanks to the swift response coordinated between election officials, law enforcement, and the postal service, we were able to recover many undamaged ballots and affected voters will be contacted to make sure they’re able to cast a vote. Any attack that strikes at our democratic process carries criminal consequences,” said Fontes.

“Ballot abuse is a felony in Arizona, and mailbox vandalism is a federal crime,” he added. “Counties across Arizona have already equipped ballot drop boxes with security controls to prevent and detect physical attacks. We are committed to continuing our partnerships that protect and preserve every citizen’s right to vote.”

Here’s a news report on YouTube about the incident.

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Five members of a family were found fatally shot in their Seattle-area home earlier this week. A 15-year-old boy is accused of murdering his parents and three siblings, but he claimed his brother carried out the murders before committing suicide.

However, the boy’s 11-year-old sister who survived the massacre refuted her brother’s murder-suicide story and declared that her 15-year-old brother is the killer.

The sister said she survived because she played dead and exited the house through a window.

Shortly before 5 a.m. Monday, two adults and three children were found dead inside their waterfront home in Fall City — approximately 25 miles east of Seattle.

WAPT reported that the King County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as Mark Humiston, 43; Sarah Humiston, 42; and their children Benjamin Humiston, 13; Joshua Humiston, 9; and Katheryn Humiston, 7.

The family’s father was shot four times and the mother was shot twice, the probable cause statement says.

The family’s only survivors are an 11-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy.

The 15-year-old boy notified the King County Sheriff’s Office of the murders. He told police his 13-year-old brother “just shot my whole family and committed suicide, too,” a sheriff’s detective wrote in a probable cause statement, according to NBC News.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, the 15-year-old told a 911 operator that his brother did the shooting because he had gotten in trouble for looking at pornography.

However, the 11-year-old sister survived the mass shooting and contradicted her brother’s account of the murders.

The girl told investigators that her 15-year-old brother shot her and her family with a Glock handgun that belonged to their father, according to the probable cause statement.

The girl informed investigators that the 15-year-old shot her and left the room; she then heard someone shouting “stop” and “help” before she escaped, the detective wrote.

The sister said she survived because she played dead and exited the house through a window. She then ran to a neighbor’s home.

The girl was hospitalized and has since been discharged, a spokesperson for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle stated.

The girl told police the handgun was kept in a lockbox, and her 15-year-old brother was the only sibling who knew the combination, the probable cause statement says.

A few minutes after the 15-year-old called police, the neighbor called 911 to report that the 11-year-old had just survived a shooting by her teen brother, according to the affidavit.

The judge ordered the teenager — who’s being held in a detention facility for juveniles — to have no contact with his surviving sibling.

Detectives determined that the 15-year-old attempted to frame his deceased brother for the murder of his parents and siblings and arrested him when they arrived at the crime scene.

The 15-year-old “staged the scene prior to the arrival of first responders” to make it appear that the 13-year-old brother committed the murders and then died by suicide, a detective wrote.

King County Detective Aaron Thompson wrote in the probable cause statement that the suspect “systematically murdered his mother, father, two brothers, and sister, and attempted to murder his other sister.”

On Thursday, the 15-year-old was charged with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in juvenile court. All six criminal counts were filed with a designation that they were acts of domestic violence, according to the prosecuting attorney’s office. The attempted murder count has a firearms enhancement, which allows for a more severe sentence if the suspect is convicted.

However, prosecutors filed a motion seeking a “discretionary decline hearing,” in which they would make the case that juvenile court should decline jurisdiction and have the case transferred to adult court — a process that could take months, according to the Seattle Times.

The outlet noted that 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds accused of murder and other serious violent crimes automatically can be charged as adults. However, a discretionary decline hearing is required to charge suspects 15 years old and younger as adults.

The teen’s defense attorneys — Molly Campera and Amy Parker — said during a Tuesday hearing that “our client is a 15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal history. … The law says our client is presumed innocent of these charges, and we are grateful for a judicial process that requires proof and evidence before there is a judgment.”

The judge ordered the teenager — who’s being held in a detention facility for juveniles — to have no contact with his surviving sibling.

The father worked as an electrical engineer for Hargis Engineers.

“We are blindsided and saddened by the tragic events that have led to the loss of a respected colleague, mentor, and friend, as well as the loss of immediate family members,” the company said in a statement. The man’s “leadership and vision were integral within our firm, and he will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with his surviving family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time.”

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Denver Broncos wide receiver Josh Reynolds survived two gunshot wounds last Friday after he was followed by several vehicles on Interstate 25 in Colorado.

Reynolds — who’s on the injured-reserve list with a broken finger — is not expected to miss any extra time despite a graze wound to the back of his head and another wound in his arm.

Broncos officials sent a statement to KUSA saying Reynolds was a victim of a shooting.

After leaving the strip club around 3 a.m. Oct. 18, the receiver reportedly was followed by two drivers when shots were fired. Reynolds and two other victims told police soon four vehicles were following Reynolds’ blue Ford Bronco on the highway.

The victims said the Ford soon broke down, causing Reynolds, along with the passengers, to flee on foot.

Police later found the victims and separately located the vehicle southbound on I-25 with multiple bullet defects in the back and front windshields. Two fired cartridges were reportedly found behind the vehicle.

Aside from Reynolds, a second victim reportedly was shot in the back while a third victim was injured by broken glass.

Team sources said Reynolds was treated and released from a Denver-area hospital hours after the shooting, ESPN reported.

Despite his wounds, KUSA-TV reported that Reynolds isn’t expected to miss any extra playing time and actually was at the Broncos’ facility last Friday, the day of the shooting, presumably after his hospital visit. KUSA added that he’s been “watching practices on the field all week.”

Denver Police later announced the arrest of two men, Burr Charlesworth and Luis Mendoza, KUSA added. ESPN said they were “being held for investigation of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault.” Court documents state that video from the strip club shows Mendoza at the club, but he was not causing any problems. However, it was noted that the suspect was keeping his eyes on the victims before following them out.

Several other vehicles were reportedly seen pulling into the parking lot and apparently waiting for Reynolds to leave, with three vehicles eventually following him.

Broncos officials sent a statement to KUSA saying Reynolds was a victim of a shooting and that he “received treatment for minor injuries”; the team declined further comment.

Reynolds, 29, is in his eighth NFL season and recently signed a two-year, $9 million contract with Denver.

He played five games in 2024 before his recent injury and has gained over 3,000 receiving yards with 20 touchdowns in his career.

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City officials in Aurora, Colorado, repeatedly denied the growing threat of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua despite apparent early warnings, according to emails obtained by Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky.

In a Wednesday post on X, Jurinsky shared an internal Aurora Police Department email dated November 16, 2023, from Gang Intervention Unit Officer Matthew Walters to Chief of Police Chris Poppe and several other colleagues.

‘The liberal media and some politicians want you to believe that it is okay for people to live like this because it’s just a handful of apartment complexes and not the entire city of Aurora.’

Walters explained that he had attached a “Gang Unit Bulletin” on TDA, which he planned to share with the entire department the following day. He noted that the announcement included information provided to him by a Homeland Security Investigations sergeant and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, according to a photo of the email.

The ICE officer “stated TdA has decided to make Denver their headquarters due to sanctuary policies and location,” Walters apparently wrote.

Poppe replied, asking Walters, “Is there any Aurora-centric info that could be included in the bulletin? Known addresses, or hangouts, or specifics cops should be aware of?”

In another X post, Jurinsky leaked a June 30 department email regarding an incident at Whispering Pines Apartments, owned by CBZ Management. According to the correspondence, a cleaning crew worker reported being “threatened … to give up the keys to the vacant apartments … so that a group of Venezuelans could move people into” the complex.

“Suspects left but not before warning her to comply or else they would kill her and her family,” the email continued, according to the photo.

The suspects reportedly stated that they had the building “under surveillance and that they had over 200 people working for them.”

“I would highly recommend you guys to take 2-3 friends with you when responding to any calls there,” the department email added.

In an email, Major Crime Homicide Unit Sergeant Jeff Longnecker stated, “I would be happy to go over this case with anyone that still denies this is a major problem.”

Longnecker was referring to a murder, but it is not clear from the email which case precisely.

He expressed frustration that multiple agencies appeared to have opened criminal investigations into TDA, but “nobody seems to be able to work with each other.”

“As soon as this group kills an innocent person all hell is going to break lose and I would hate for us all to be exposed for not sharing information with each other and/or not being able to show that we have dedicated proactive units and investigative units directly impacting this problem,” Longnecker wrote.

Jurinsky torched some city leaders for downplaying the severity of the situation.

In a separate post on X, she stated, “The liberal media and some politicians want you to believe that it is okay for people to live like this because it’s just a handful of apartment complexes and not the entire city of Aurora. I ask again what the threshold is for these ‘leaders’ to care?”

CBZ Management wrote in a post on social media this week, “The police knew about the TDA gangs taking over our properties – as early as Sept 22, 2023 – and didn’t warn us! Worse, they put the onus of security on our employees without us knowing the danger!”

The company shared another leaked internal department email dated September 2023, with the subject line “Tren de Aragua.”

“According to interviews from residence [sic] Tren de Aragua is working out of Aurora and residing in our city,” the sergeant’s email apparently read.

Ryan Luby, a city of Aurora spokesperson, told the Denver Gazette, “We must remember that police departments and the justice system as a whole must rely on admissible evidence, not hearsay, rumors and fragments of information.”

“Contrary to claims made on social media and by select news organizations, the city, including APD, has remained consistent in responses on this matter,” Luby wrote in a Thursday statement to the news outlet.

Luby also pushed back on CBZ Management, telling the Denver Gazette, “Instead of expending the resources to address the documented issues, CBZ and its stakeholders have hired a team of attorneys and, as we learned today, a Florida-based public relations firm to engage in diversionary tactics, fight the city in its city charter-mandated duties to enforce city code, and alternative narratives with many of you.”

Governor Jared Polis’ office told the news outlet that the governor’s office is “committed to supporting local law enforcement and their work to keep our communities safe.”

Polis previously called TDA’s takeover of apartment complexes “largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination.“

“The state was first notified by Homeland Security in late July that they were monitoring activity in Aurora, the state then immediately reached out to the city of Aurora, including the Governor reaching out to the Mayor, to offer any assistance needed,” the governor’s office told the Denver Gazette. “When Governor Polis met with Mayor Coffman in late July, we were informed that the city did not have a strong criminal case yet and the state offered dedicated investigative support in the form of Troopers and CBI agents to work cases, and DHSEM provided analysts to support investigations to identify and arrest known criminal gang elements.”

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Cook Political Report shifted New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler’s race from “toss up” to “lean Republican” on Friday, despite Democrats’ efforts to recoup their losses from the 2022 midterm cycle.

Lawler won his seat in New York’s 17th Congressional District, a +3 Democrat district, by fewer than 2,000 votes, unseating Democratic incumbent Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney. Lawler and Republican Reps. Brandon Williams, Anthony D’Esposito, and Marc Molinaro all flipped their seats in the 2022 midterms.

The New York races may be particularly consequential given the Republicans’ narrowing majority in the House.

Of the four New York Republican incumbents, Lawler’s odds of re-election are the strongest. Molinaro’s and D’Esposito’s seats are both ranked “toss up,” while Williams’ seat is rated “lean Democrat.” The latest polls show the freshman congressman with a slim advantage over Democratic challenger Mondaire Jones.

Jones formerly served New York’s 17th Congressional District from 2021 to 2023 before running for New York’s 10th Congressional District after a new congressional map was drawn in 2022.

“Mondaire Jones has spent the better part of the past two years trying to rewrite history, and no one is buying it,” Savannah Viar, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement. “The momentum is on the side of common-sense leader Mike Lawler, who will be re-elected in November.”

The New York races may be particularly consequential given the Republicans’ narrowing majority in the House. Of the 435 seats, three are vacant, while Republicans currently hold 220 seats and Democrats hold 212.

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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice
sued the Commonwealth of Virginia earlier this month in an attempt to arrest and reverse its efforts to keep noncitizens off the voter rolls.

A Biden-nominated judge obliged the DOJ Friday,
ruling that Virginia must restore the registrations of over 1,600 individuals allegedly identified as noncitizens.

According to Bloomberg News, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles claimed the removals were a “clear violation” of the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period provision, which requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office.

The Biden judge ordered the state to dispatch notices to everyone whose registration was canceled under Youngkin’s individualized voter roll cleanup program.

Giles indicated that these notices must go out even to those who election officials have reason to believe are noncitizens, telling the state’s lawyer, “I’m not dealing with beliefs. I’m dealing with evidence.”

Charles Cooper, a lawyer for the state, told the court, “Congress couldn’t possibly have intended to prevent the removal … of persons who were never eligible to vote in the first place,”
reported the Associated Press.

‘It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter.’

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin
indicated that Virginia will appeal the ruling and, if necessary, take the the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the injunction.

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals — who self-identified themselves as noncitizens — back onto the voter rolls,” Youngkin said in a statement.

The governor noted further that the state was simply following through on a law “passed in 2006, signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, that mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal — and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens to cast a provisional ballot. This law has been applied in every presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago.”

Blaze News
previously reported that Youngkin issued an executive order on Aug. 7, exactly 90 days before the general election, requiring both that the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections routinely update voter lists to remove individuals identified as noncitizens and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles expedite the interagency data-sharing with the DOE with regard to noncitizen transactions.

“Call me crazy, but I think American elections should be decided by American citizens and Virginia elections should be decided by Virginians,” Youngkin
said in an interview.

The DOJ swooped in with a lawsuit on Oct. 11,
claiming the initiative violated Section 8(c)(2) of the NVRA.

Former Virginia Attorney General Richard Cullen, Youngkin’s lawyer, contended that the program was kosher because it is not a systematic program but rather an individualized process that begins with “individuals themselves indicating that they are a noncitizen during a DMV transaction.”

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
said of Giles’ ruling, “It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter. Yet, today a Court — urged by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice — ordered Virginia to put the names of non-citizens back on the voter rolls, mere days before a presidential election.

Miyares suggested that this is a clear case of the Biden-Harris administration weaponizing the legal system “against the enemies of so-called progress.”

“That is the definition of lawfare,” continued the state attorney general. “To openly choose weaponization over good process and lawfare over integrity isn’t democracy: It’s bullying, pure and simple, and I always stand up to bullies.”

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Jennifer Sey is a former pro athlete and brand president of Levi’s — who is now a fierce advocate for saving women’s sports from being infiltrated by men.

“I swear I’m going to lose my mind,” Sey tells James Poulos of “Zero Hour.” “The spokesperson for the IOC just said this morning there’s no reliable test to tell the difference between males and females.”

While Poulos and Sey agree that what’s been happening is absolute insanity, Sey believes it’s “deliberately obtuse and politically motivated.”

“The other argument they use is, ‘Any test we might do is just too intrusive,’” Sey continues. “Well, I will tell you, as an internationally competitive athlete that competed before this, before we didn’t think the tests were accurate, we were tested regularly for drug use.”

“We had to pee in a cup in front of a person at every national and international competition,” she says. “I didn’t even think it was intrusive. I wanted it to be fair, I wanted a fair fight in the competition.”

“I can always accept losing if it’s a fair fight,” she adds, explaining that something like 85% of female athletes are in favor of testing for sex eligibility simply because “they too want a fair fight.”

Two major stories from earlier this year surrounded the boxers who failed the sex eligibility tests but were allowed to compete against women in the 2024 Olympics regardless of the results.

“They did not challenge the testing results in the court of arbitration, which might suggest they knew that the testing results were accurate, and since then, the IOC has snatched regulation and oversight of boxing away from that individual sports governing body,” Sey says.

Boxing is now the only sport in the Olympics being governed directly by the International Olympic Committee.

“This male boxer punches a woman repeatedly while she’s up against the ropes, with her throat against the rope, in the back of the head. Not disqualified,” She says, adding, “these female boxers are being told to sit down, shut up, take it. This is what you have to do to be inclusive.”

“Craziness,” Poulos comments in disbelief.

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The Kamala Harris campaign has two pillars holding it up: “baby killing” and the narrative “[Trump] is literally Hitler.”

“They don’t have anything else to run on,” says Steve Deace.

According to Gallup’s most recent favorability polling, it would seem as if the Democrats’ two pillars are beginning to crumble.

Currently, Trump’s total favorable rating sits at a 50, while Harris’ sits at a 48. However, those numbers are reversed on the unfavorable scale. Harris’ total unfavorable rating is 50, while Trump’s is 48.

While this certainly is a positive sign for Republicans, Steve says we can’t forget about the thing that’s “lurking there in the background.”

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It’s the F-word we all dread: fraud.

Steve points to Maricopa County, Arizona, saying, “‘I don’t know, guys, it might take us a couple weeks [to count the votes]”’ as an example of a glaring sign of impending fraudulent activity.

“In fairness to them, given how Trump is surging in the polls right now, they don’t have any clue how many votes they’re going to actually need, so it may take them longer to conjure them up. I’m sorry — to count them. Count. Wrong C-word,” Steve jests.

While Steve is being humorous, “what lingers underneath the surface” is the gnawing fear that Trump will win and still not see the Oval Office — especially considering that there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that that’s exactly what happened in the 2020 election.

“Nothing substantive was done about it for the last four years. Lots of people built massive engagement farms, wringing their hands about it. … Lots of money was raised to stop the stealing from happening,” but “no Krakens were ever released,” he sighs. “The polling is still close enough perceptively that you could justify stealing it if you wanted to try.”

While “the margin of cheating is definitely lower than it was a few weeks ago … we’re not outside of it yet by any means,” warns Steve.

To hear more of his election forecasting, watch the episode above.

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Undecided Pennsylvania voters in a focus group said Democrats calling Donald Trump the next Adolf Hitler is not convincing them to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Speaking with Mark Halperin, all seven participants agreed the argument that “Trump is Hitler” and a “fascist” from Democrats in the final days of the election is unproductive. Instead, they want to see more important issues addressed.

“To me, it’s horrible that she’s saying that about him. If he was saying that about her, everybody would be up in arms,” a woman named Linda told Halperin.

“She obviously thinks it’s going to help her. I don’t think it does at all,” another participant said.

The participant claimed it would be unusual for former Chief of Staff John Kelly to make up a story of Trump praising Hitler’s generals but added that Kelly “had the responsibility to resign the day that was said, if that’s true.

“I don’t think that’s the case,” the participant said.

‘I know President Trump, and he would never say this.’

“I think part of the reason why I’m being pushed towards Trump so strongly is that I find that the Democrats and the left just keep going straight to Hitler all of the time, with everything,” another man said. “If it’s the left not pushing Hitler, it’s the right pushing Stalin. So it’s like we’re fighting World War II every single day for every single election. It’s so exhausting. … It’s so hyperbolic.”

When Halperin asked the group to raise their hands if they thought Harris’ recent attacks on Trump were valuable to the discourse, no one did.

Halperin admitted it was just one focus group and not a poll, but said, “You will look in vain, I believe, for anything in the media that tells you how the voters feel about this argument. I just haven’t seen it anywhere else. So whose view of this argument would you most like to hear right now? I would argue undecided voters in Pennsylvania.”

The Trump campaign has responded to Harris’ accusations with a new ad featuring a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp denouncing the comparisons.

“I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I’ve ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States. I know President Trump, and he would never say this,” Jerry Wartski said.

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Jonny Ardavanis is the lead pastor at Stonebridge Bible Church, and a sermon of his recently went viral — because he perfectly articulated what so many others are afraid to.

“I’m not a political commentator,” he began. “I’m a preacher of the Bible. But certain things politically are more theological than they used to be. The Democratic Party is a demonic death cult under the power and influence of Satan.”

“To vote for a platform that is building their platform upon everything God hates: the mutilation of bodies, the annihilation of babies in the womb, and the sexualization of your children. That is their calling card, that is what they want to do,” he said.

“They don’t hide that. They have abortion facilities outside of the Democratic convention. This is who they are. It’s the most radical party in our country’s history,” he continued, adding, “So I don’t see how you could be a Christian and vote for a party who promotes everything that God hates.”

Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” couldn’t agree more with Ardavanis, who admits he’s shocked that the clip of his sermon went so viral.

“I had no idea just calling a spade a spade from scripture was so bold,” he tells Stuckey, adding, “I had no idea I’m being bold where the scripture is so clear.”

However, it is bold to be honest — especially as God–fearing Americans around the country have voiced their support for Kamala Harris, like Ray Ortlund.

Ortlund has been quite vocal about his support for the vice president, even writing in a post on X: “Never Trump. This time Harris. Always Jesus.”

“I don’t know how common of a stance this is among Christians, but Ray Ortlund, from what I understand, is not fully progressive. He probably aligns with us on a variety of theological issues, and yet, this is a position that I see at least some evangelicals hold, voting for Kamala Harris because Trump is just so uniquely bad,” Stuckey comments.

Like Stuckey, Ardavanis isn’t clear how Ortlund decided on Kamala Harris while being a man of God.

“I don’t know how you arrive at that position honestly, when you’re thinking with the mind of Christ,” Ardavanis says. “I don’t know how you arrive there when you just look at the full-term abortions, the onslaught of sexuality, the absolute dismantling of the nuclear family, marriage.”

“She is opposed to the biblical worldview like no one else in our country’s history,” he adds.

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