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An Ohio woman was arrested during a routine traffic stop after police discovered crack cocaine — and a raccoon in the front seat with a glass meth pipe in its mouth, according to authorities.

At around 7:15 p.m. Monday, an officer with the Springfield Township Police Department pulled over a vehicle because the driver reportedly had an active warrant and a suspended driver’s license.

‘While our officers are trained to expect the unexpected, finding a raccoon holding a meth pipe is a first!’

“However, things took an unusual turn,” the Springfield Township Police Department said in a statement.

“As Officer Branham returned to the vehicle, he observed a raccoon named ‘Chewy’ sitting in the driver’s seat with a meth pipe in its mouth,” police stated. “Chewy had somehow gotten hold of a glass methamphetamine pipe, leading officers to further inspect the vehicle.”

Police said a subsequent search revealed a “bulk” amount of methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and three used glass meth pipes.

The driver — 55-year-old Victoria Vidal from Akron — was arrested “without incident” and charged with possession of drugs, three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, and a citation for driving with a suspended license.

The Midland Daily News reported that a “grand jury will consider additional charges related to crack cocaine possession, pending lab results.”

Vidal reportedly was turned over to Cuyahoga Falls Police on her active warrant.

The Springfield Township Police Department said, “Thankfully, Chewy the raccoon was unharmed, and notification was made to the proper authorities to determine that she has the proper paperwork and documentation to own the raccoon.”

The police department joked, “While our officers are trained to expect the unexpected, finding a raccoon holding a meth pipe is a first! No raccoons were hurt or injured in this incident.”

Police did not specify if Chewy would be returned to Vidal.

In Ohio, residents reportedly are permitted to own raccoons as pets if they file appropriate documents.

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A man was charged with murder after supplying his adult daughter and her friend with fentanyl so that he could sexually assault the friend, according to police.

Joshua Youngblood visited his 27-year-old daughter at her apartment for Thanksgiving Day in 2023 and allegedly supplied her with a lethal dose of fentanyl. He then proceeded to assault her friend as his daughter succumbed to the drug.

‘You are a vile person. This is a heinous crime.’

On Tuesday, law enforcement officials announced that Youngblood was charged with murder as well as sexual harassment.

“While his daughter was gradually dying from fentanyl, Youngblood proceeded to assault his daughter’s friend, who was also under the influence of fentanyl,” said Special Agent Will Kimball with the DEA in Houston.

Youngblood was charged under a law that was passed by the Texas legislature in 2023 to allow murder charges in cases where fentanyl distribution led to a victim’s death.

“This case is extremely, extremely disheartening because it goes against all decency,” Kimball added.

Bernice Hawkins, the victim’s mother, addressed Youngblood during a statement at the press conference.

“Josh, you are a vile person. This is a heinous crime. Jade loved you, and you took her from us,” she said tearfully. “And for that I hope you pay with your life.”

Hawkins said she gave birth to Youngblood’s daughter after getting pregnant in high school.

“Josh was a come-and-go kind of person. When it was convenient for him. And then as Jade got older, it was more of ‘What can Jade do for Josh?'” she said.

Hawkins said that her daughter fought to try to have a relationship with her father.

“She craved the love of her father, and I think she gave him a lot of exceptions and allowed him a lot of leniency in areas other people probably would not,” Hawkins added.

He is being held on a $150,000 bond.

Scenes can be viewed on the news video report from KHOU-TV on YouTube.

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President Donald Trump pulled his nomination of a former Fox News contributor for surgeon general and instead nominated Casey Means, a health influencer allied with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The former nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, was dropped after it was revealed that she had not graduated from the University of Arkansas as she had claimed, but instead graduated from a medical school in the Caribbean. She had worked as a medical contributor for Fox.

‘Casey has impeccable “MAHA” credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’

Trump announced the second nomination in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.

“I am pleased to announce that Dr. Casey Means, will be nominated as our next Surgeon General of the United States of America,” he wrote. “Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans.”

He praised her academic achievements and life’s work before adding that she “has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History.”

Means, a graduate of Stanford University, has been a vocal critic of ultra-processed foods and chemicals in American foods. In 2024, she appeared on Joe Rogan’s wildly popular podcast and explained how one chemical could be contributing to early-onset puberty.

“We are living in this wildly estrogenic environment that is created by humans,” said Means, who pinned part of the blame on atrazine, a pesticide banned in Europe but allowed in the U.S.

“We buy it from other countries,” she added. “So China and Germany and other countries are selling us a chemical of which 70 million pounds are spread on our food — invisible and tasteless, which up-regulates aromatase and converts testosterone to estrogen.”

In the announcement Wednesday, Trump went on to say that Kennedy would be working with Nesheiwat in another capacity at HHS.

Nesheiwat was also criticized for calling the COVID vaccine a “gift from God.”

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On Friday, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency officially labeled Alternative for Germany — the country’s most popular conservative party — as a “right-wing extremist” organization. The nationalist party surged to second place in February’s federal election, winning 20.8% of the vote. This new designation grants the ruling government expanded powers to surveil Alternative for Germany leaders and supporters and sets the stage for an outright ban.

Germany has now joined a growing list of Western governments that delay elections, disqualify candidates, and ban opposition parties — all in the name of defending democracy.

Democracy has become a marketing slogan — useful for justifying war and globalist expansion, but disposable when it interferes with ruling-class priorities.

To call Germany’s relationship with authoritarianism “complicated” understates the case. The country’s historical memory fixates on Nazism as the ultimate expression of right-wing extremism and mass atrocity. But that singular focus conveniently ignores the fact that the Soviet Union, which helped defeat the Third Reich, imposed its own brutal regime across East Germany until the Berlin Wall fell.

Modern Germany has seen tyranny from both the far right and the far left. Yet its national identity now orbits entirely around a rejection of right-wing politics. Anti-fascism has become something like a state religion. But when a country builds its identity on shame and self-repudiation, it risks cultural collapse. We’ve seen the same pathology infect America, where elite institutions push a national narrative defined entirely by slavery and racial guilt.

Every nation has dark chapters. A mature society learns from them. It doesn’t define itself by them forever.

While German history explains some of its deep aversion to nationalism, the trend of suppressing populist movements in the name of democracy has spread far beyond Berlin.

Brazil’s Supreme Court banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking office until 2030. Romania’s Constitutional Court voided its 2024 election, citing supposed Russian influence in the rise of populist candidate Călin Georgescu. And in the United States, courts came dangerously close to removing Donald Trump from the ballot — while the president now fights legal battles over whether he can exercise executive power at all under Article II of the Constitution.

This isn’t democracy defending itself. It’s ruling elites trying to outlaw their opposition.

Western elites justify their dominance by invoking democracy and individual liberty. That wasn’t always the case. The West once called itself Christendom — a civilizational identity grounded in faith, tradition, and truth. But it abandoned that foundation in favor of secular platitudes.

The United States has waged entire wars in the name of exporting democracy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan — nations that never wanted it and were never going to keep it. These projects were doomed from the start. Yet at least they wrapped American power in the language of benevolence.

Today, even that fig leaf has disappeared.

The modern West treats democracy as a branding exercise, not a principle. Leaders like Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and Keir Starmer love lecturing the world about “liberal norms,” even as they jail political dissidents, censor speech, and turn domestic intelligence services against their own citizens. They condemn Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism while staying silent as NATO allies crush dissent at home.

Democracy has become a marketing slogan — useful for justifying war and globalist expansion, but disposable when it interferes with ruling-class priorities.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both slammed the German government for labeling Alternative for Germany as extremist. On social media, Rubio went further, blaming Germany’s open-border policies for the Alternative for Germany rise and calling the state’s surveillance powers tyranny in disguise.

Germany’s Foreign Office issued a formal reply, insisting the decision stemmed from an “independent” and “thorough” investigation.

The claim is absurd on its face.

No government can “independently” investigate and condemn its most prominent political opposition — especially not when the accusation is “extremism,” a term that now means little more than holding views the ruling class finds inconvenient.

I’ve made no secret of my dislike of modern mass democracy. But the original concept, at least, had merit. Democracy once meant rule by the demos — the people of a particular nation, rooted in shared history, culture, and civic identity. Its legitimacy came not from procedure or process but from the bonds between citizens and their country.

Today’s ruling class has twisted that definition beyond recognition. As I’ve written before, globalist elites now use the word “democracy” to describe a system governed by unaccountable institutions they alone control. Populism, they say, is dangerous. Democracy, they insist, must be preserved. But in practice, they oppose the popular will and protect only the process they’ve captured.

Elections have become sacraments — rituals that legitimize the rule of bureaucracies, not expressions of the people’s will. The process is sacred, not the outcome. That’s why Western politicians now speak of “our sacred democracy,” which must be defended not from tyranny, but from actual democratic movements.

Western leaders still try to justify their global power by invoking freedom and liberty. But their credibility has collapsed. It’s farcical to hear men like Justin Trudeau or Keir Starmer preach about “shared Western values” while jailing political opponents and silencing dissent at home.

The moral authority of liberal democracy is crumbling. And the cause isn’t Putin or China. It’s Western leaders who’ve gutted the electoral process and replaced it with rule by managerial elites.

The Trump administration should continue to expose this hypocrisy. But it also must act. That means offering political asylum to dissidents facing persecution in places like Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Americans rightly recoil at repression in Russia. They should feel the same revulsion when it comes from our “allies” in Berlin, Ottawa, or London.

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In a massive win for the Make America Healthy Again movement, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning all federal funding — present and future — for gain-of-function research abroad.

The order will also deputize the National Institutes of Health and other agencies to identify biological research harmful to public health or threatening to national security.

As Trump signed the executive order, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a few comments of his own.

“This is a historic day. The end of gain-of-function research funding by the federal government, and also controls by private corporations on gain-of-function studies,” Kennedy said while standing next to the president. “This was the kind of study that was engaged in by the United States military and intelligence agencies, beginning in 1947.”

“By 1969, the CIA said that they had reached nuclear equivalency — that they could kill the entire U.S. population for 29 cents a person,” he continued. “That year, President Nixon went to Fort Detrick and announced a unilateral end to this kind of research — what they call dual-use research.”

Dual-use research, Kennedy explained, was “for vaccination and also for military purposes.”

Nixon then persuaded over 180 countries to sign the bioweapons charter in 1973, which essentially put an end to gain-of-function research across the globe — until the 9/11 and anthrax attacks — which led to the Patriot Act.

“The Patriot Act had a provision, a little known provision in it, that said that although the bioweapons charter is still in effect, and the Geneva Convention is still in effect, U.S. federal officials who violated it cannot be prosecuted,” Kennedy added.

“Now, you hear this and you’re like, ‘Well, they already told us that they were not supposed to be engaging in gain-of-function research, but they were,’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“And they weren’t doing it with someone who you would call maybe our ally. They were doing it with, of course, China, which I just feel like it takes a basic level of intelligence to be like, ‘That’s a bad idea. That’s not a good idea,’” she continues.

And a bad idea it was.

“You’ve got America’s health institutions implicated in the development of that man-made virus,” Gonzales says. “It makes you wonder how many more have happened or are on the way that we just don’t know about yet.”

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A new statue in Times Square is meant to make onlookers reflect on “greater cultural diversity” than that of other statues in New York City.

The 12-foot-tall bronze statue is of a woman that is inspired by Michelangelo’s “David” but is supposed to represent the observations and images from Los Angeles, New York City, and London. It is entitled “Grounded in the Stars.”

‘A great place for pigeons to land and release their own artwork.’

“The intention of my public works is to become part of the place they inhabit and its physical, material history, as well as the visitors that pass through and around the location, no matter how fleeting,” said the artist, Thomas J. Price of London.

Many online ridiculed the statue.

“My main concern is that a significantly out of whack Body Mass Index (BMI) often foreshadows a variety of illnesses and conditions normally associated with being overweight,” read one response.

“A great place for pigeons to land and release their own artwork,” was another reply.

Another user called it “a realistic representation of the girl at Chipotle after asking her to put another scoop of peppers on your burrito bowl.”

“The only thing the ‘Grounded In the Stars’ series challenges is peoples’ [sic] eyesight, because these statues are ugly,” read another response.

“This just panders to identity politics, ignoring real health consequences, and cheapens actual art. Plus it’s ugly as s**t,” was another reply.

“I knew there would be false idols in the end times, but I didn’t know they would be fat mamis,” joked another user.

Here’s an image of the statue:

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“Grounded in the Stars” will be on display until June 17.

Images of the statue can be viewed on the WCBS-TV news video report on YouTube.

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A Virginia homeowner has been charged with murder after a high school senior was fatally shot amid what surviving teenagers said was a “ding-dong ditch” doorbell prank in the middle of the night over the weekend.

Tyler Chase Butler, 27, of Spotsylvania County was arrested Tuesday for second-degree murder, malicious wounding, and two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said, adding that Butler was being held at Rappahannock Regional Jail on no bond.

‘It has been very emotional, honestly. We graduate next week.’

The sheriff’s office said it received a call around 3 a.m. Saturday for a residential burglary in progress, during which a resident had fired shots. Officials said deputies responded to the area of McKenzie Lane and discovered that two people were wounded by gunfire and a third person was unharmed.

One of the wounded — 18-year-old Michael Bosworth Jr. — was taken to a hospital, where he died, officials said. The second wounded individual — a juvenile — was treated and released, officials said. The third involved person — another juvenile — will remain unnamed, the sheriff’s office said.

Turns out, Bosworth Jr. was a senior at Massaponax High School in Fredericksburg, where he played lacrosse, football, and also wrestled, his stepfather told WRC-TV.

Not only was Bosworth shot just hours before his school’s prom, WRC said, but also adding to the tragedy is that one of the juveniles shot at over the weekend told detectives they were playing a “ding-dong ditch” prank during which they ring doorbells and run away, hoping someone answers the door with nobody there, WJLA-TV reported.

WJLA said it obtained search warrants for the cell phones of the two surviving juveniles, and the aforementioned juvenile said the three of them had performed the “ding-dong ditch” prank at a few homes, took at least one video of them carrying it out, and were planning to post their videos on TikTok as part of a social media trend.

The juvenile in question told detectives that they ran away and tried to hide after doing a “ding-dong ditch” at the home where Butler lives — and then the shooting commenced, WJLA reported.

Both surviving juveniles were read Miranda Warnings, WJLA said, but neither of them were charged, and at least one voluntarily handed over a phone to a detective.

Sheriff’s Office Capt. Charles Carey told WJLA the initial 911 call indicated that three people allegedly were trying to break into Butler’s home by kicking in the back door.

Khamoni Keys told WJLA he was on the freshman football team with Bosworth and is a friend of the other juvenile who was wounded: “[Bosworth] wasn’t ever scared to show how he felt about things. He was a very passionate person about stuff. It’s sad he had to go the way he did, but I know his family won’t be by themselves. We will all be there for them as well. I went to the hospital that morning when I heard one of my closer friends got shot.”

Massaponax High School Principal William Lancaster III sent a letter to families after the shooting, WJLA said, adding that it noted Bosworth’s death and said counseling resources would be made available to students.

What’s more, Tuesday night was the annual senior sunset at the high school — and what was normally a fun event to celebrate students’ upcoming graduation was decidedly somber, WJLA said.

“It has been very emotional, honestly. We graduate next week,” Keys told WJLA. “It has been very rough, like I said, but I think we will all get through it if we stay together the way we are. That’s how it is right now at the senior sunset. We’re all together. No one’s alone. We’re just taking time to all mourn together instead of taking it by ourselves.”

You can view a video report here covering the incident and reactions to it.

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Every spring, celebrities, cultural icons, and public figures dress in themed evening wear and gather at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala, while us normies at home eat popcorn on the couch cheering or chiding the costume circus and elitist antics that are sure to fuel endless memes and hot takes for months to come.

From baby bumps to sneaky appearances and no-shows, the Met Gala 2025 brewed a storm of celebrity drama.

Stu Burguiere dives into three of the biggest stories of the night.

1. Rihanna is pregnant (again)

Singer, fashion mogul, and entrepreneur Rihanna, donning a baby-bump-showing ensemble, announced her third pregnancy with longtime partner A$AP Rocky.

Stu, displaying an image of Rihanna at the Met Gala, reads from a New York Times article: “She seemed to confirm rumor she was pregnant when she met shouts of ‘congratulations’ with ‘thank you.”’

“I think this is funny,” says Stu. “You’re supposed to be a news publication. It’s pretty freakin’ obvious she’s pregnant there. You can just say it.”

Perhaps their “[beating] around the bush” is because Rihanna is “a longtime abortion advocate.”

2. Surprise! It’s … Kamala?

Dressed in a black and white Cruella de Ville-esque gown, Kamala Harris made a low-profile debut appearance, avoiding red carpets and limiting her photo presence.

Stu ponders whether her quiet attendance was due to the glaring hypocrisy of attending an event that costs $75,000 a person while your platform is complaining about inequality.

“Every person who was on the stage and went to this event are the same exact people that are going to tell you, first of all, how you’re a racist for being white, but secondly, how your evil wealth is terrible and billionaires shouldn’t exist,” he sighs.

“I have no problem with rich people doing things they enjoy,” but “it’s the hypocrisy that bothers me.”

“I want an executive order that just says if you ever go to the Met Gala, you’re not allowed to speak any more about income inequality,” Stu jokes.

3. LeBron says Le-Bye-Bye

In honor of his cultural influence and fashion-forward presence, LeBron James was named the honorary chair for the Met Gala 2025 and was set to host the event. However, just hours before it started, he bailed, claiming a knee injury — specifically an MCL sprain he sustained during the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on April 30 — was forcing him to stay home.

“Now, I was watching the game, okay? It’s amazing how these injuries for LeBron James and the massive flops that he has all seemed to happen right around the end of losses. It’s fascinating,” says Stu.

Granted LeBron “played the rest of the game” that night, and granted it’s entirely possible to attend an event with a knee injury, Stu isn’t convinced physical pain is what caused him to bail.

“I will say, I didn’t understand anything from the Met Gala. I don’t get it. I don’t understand why people talk about it all the time, other than to make fun of it, which, by the way, I will say, is fun and valuable,” he adds.

To hear more of Stu’s humorous take on celebrity culture and hypocrisy, watch the episode above.

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A day care facility on Cape Cod has now been closed by authorities after it was discovered that a convicted child rapist, who was in the United States illegally, had been living there with the owner, whom he was in a relationship with.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had arrested 36-year-old Andre Tiago Lucas, who is originally from Brazil, in October 2024. Lucas fled South America and went to the sanctuary state after being convicted in 2016 of rape of a vulnerable person and sentenced to serve nine years and four months’ incarceration. The victim was 13 years old at the time.

Nunes called police on a Boston 25 News crew when they attempted to question her.

“This Brazilian fugitive has been convicted of a heinous crime in his native country. Rather than face the consequences for his actions, he chose to flee, falsely believing he could evade justice in Massachusetts,” acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde of ERO Boston said after Lucas’ arrest. “ERO Boston will continue to prioritize public safety by arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders.”

WFXT-TV reports that Lucas was living at the Hyannis day care with Franciele Nunes. Lucas reportedly has two children with Nunes, who let her license from the state Department of Early Education and Care expire in March.

Worcester County Sheriff Lew Evangelidis told WFXT that the new information is shocking and shows change is needed.

“The idea that someone has been documented, that a Brazilian national fled the country because they were convicted for rape of a 13-year-old and could come to Massachusetts and not only disappear into the fabric of Massachusetts, but actually be living in a home that was a day care center for young people. That’s terrifying,” Evangelidis said.

Massachusetts’ Department of Early Education and Care inspected the day care five times, but the agency maintains it did not find evidence of Lucas living there. The EEC does conduct background checks of all individuals 15 or older who are residing in or regularly visiting home day cares, but those checks are limited to information available within the United States, not internationally.

Nunes called police on a WFXT news crew when they attempted to question her.

Massachusetts has proudly declared itself to be a sanctuary for illegal aliens, which has resulted in criminals being let go from local police custody before federal immigration authorities can pick them up to be removed from the country.

“Biden’s open borders let this filth live freely for years. President Trump’s policies will hunt down and deport every last predator,” the White House stated on X in response to the horrific news.

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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Reps. Robert Garcia (Calif.), Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Yassamin Ansari (Ariz.), and Maxine Dexter (Ore.) are among the Democratic lawmakers who decided to champion the cause of MS-13 associate Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national the Trump administration sent packing on March 15.

Abrego Garcia’s illegal entry into the U.S., his
failure to appear for hearings on traffic violations, the domestic abuse allegations lodged against him, his links to a terrorist gang, and his identification by two immigration courts as a danger to the community were likely already cause enough to justify his deportation and to question his Democratic defenders’ judgment. However, more damning information has come to light.

In the wake of the Tennessee Star’s
publication of footage showing Abrego Garcia’s Nov. 30, 2022, encounter with Tennessee Highway Patrol and confirmation of the Department of Justice’s investigation into the traffic stop, ABC News reported that the Salvadoran’s boss has outed him as an human trafficker.

The traffic stop

Tennessee Highway Patrol
reportedly pulled over Abrego Garcia in November 2022 for driving erratically, which he was reportedly doing without a valid license.

‘He’s getting paid to haul these people.’

The THP officer surmised from the MS-13 associate’s human cargo and lack of luggage that Abrego Garcia — then on a terrorist watch list but not on a deportation list — was engaged in human trafficking.

One officer said in the video obtained by the Tennessee Star, “He’s hauling these people for money. You’ve got an ICE hauler, is what he’s doing. Sometimes they come in with dope.”

“There’s eight people in there,” continued the officer. “He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say, if I had to guess.”

— (@)

Tennessee Highway Patrol notified the Biden FBI, which told the officers to take pictures of Abrego Garcia and his seven passengers, then cut them loose.

While Abrego Garcia got to drive away with just a warning, he did so only after materially and verbally linking himself to a convicted human trafficker.

The black 2001 Chevrolet Silverado that Abrego Garcia was driving was reportedly flagged by the Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore field office as belonging to Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes — an illegal alien from Mexico who Abrego Garcia
told a state trooper was his boss.

Hernandez-Reyes pleaded guilty on June 4, 2020, to smuggling illegal aliens. He was
sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, then deported, though he stole back into the U.S. sometime later and was eventually rearrested.

Abrego Garcia outed

Federal investigators looking into Abrego Garcia’s 2022 traffic stop recently spoke with Hernandez-Reyes at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, sources familiar with the investigation
told ABC News.

Hernandez-Reyes, who was granted limited immunity, told investigators he ran a “taxi service” based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Mexican national reportedly indicated that he met Abrego Garcia in 2015 and hired him on multiple occasions to smuggle illegal aliens from Texas to other places in the country.

Hernandez-Reyes previously told authorities that he would smuggle people throughout the U.S. for $350 per person. In the bodycam footage of the 2022 traffic stop obtained by the Tennessee Star, Abrego Garcia is said to have $1,400 in cash on his person.

ABC News indicated that the DOJ declined to comment.

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A resurfaced video from February has people looking at Democrat Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman.

Video footage captures him arguing with the pilot on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh over a seatbelt issue.

Pat Gray plays the clip.

In the video, the pilot asks if Fetterman has his seatbelt on, to which he responds, “Yes, it is.”

“Okay, it needs to be visible for the crew at all times. That’s not an us thing; it’s a federal regulation,” the pilot added, offering a seatbelt extender for comfort.

Fetterman, however, refused to comply, culminating in a tense exchange.

“If you want to go to Pittsburgh, it’s simple, you’re going to have to follow our instructions or be asked to get off the airplane,” the exasperated pilot says.

It’s unclear whether or not Fetterman eventually complied, as the video ends abruptly.

Although the spat happened in February, it gained attention after New York magazine published an article on May 2 about concerns regarding Fetterman’s mental health. The piece referred to the airplane incident as an example of his alleged erratic behavior, prompting the video to go viral.

“I mean, nobody got out of control, which is good,” says Pat, calling the regulation “obnoxious.”

“Kudos to John Fetterman. He didn’t drop the ‘do you know who I am’ card,” says Keith Malinak.

The panel is mostly just celebrating that the incident happened on an American Airlines flight — which they prefer to call “unAmerican Airlines.”

“Put that in your pipe and smoke it,” laughs Pat.

To see the video footage of Fetterman’s airplane tiff, watch the episode above.

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced Wednesday the results of a nationwide sting led by the FBI.

Operation Restore Justice was a five-day joint effort between 55 FBI field offices, the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and United States Attorney’s Offices across the country.

‘In Washington, D.C., a former Metropolitan Police Department police officer was arrested for allegedly trafficking minor victims.’

The operation resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrest of 205 alleged child sexual abuse offenders.

The suspects were charged with a number of crimes against children, including the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material, the DOJ stated.

“In Minneapolis, for example, a state trooper and Army reservist was arrested for allegedly producing child sexual abuse material while wearing his uniforms. In Norfolk, VA, an illegal alien from Mexico is accused of transporting a minor across state lines for sex. In Washington, D.C., a former Metropolitan Police Department police officer was arrested for allegedly trafficking minor victims,” the department said.

The FBI’s Charlotte field office reported that it nabbed six people across North Carolina. One arrested individual, previously convicted of sexual battery and a registered sex offender, was charged with sex trafficking of a minor. If convicted on all counts, the suspect could face up to life in prison.

FBI Cleveland arrested 11 individuals, Boston arrested seven, Newark arrested five, and Baltimore arrested three.

FBI Director Kash Patel explained that some of the alleged offenders included teachers and law enforcement personnel.

Patel said, “Every child deserves to grow up free from fear and exploitation, and the FBI will continue to be relentless in our pursuit of those who exploit the most vulnerable among us.”

“Operation Restore Justice proves that no predator is out of reach and no child will be forgotten. By leveraging the strength of all our field offices and our federal, state and local partners, we’re sending a clear message: There is no place to hide for those who prey on children,” he added.

The DOJ credited “parental vigilance and community outreach” for the successful sting operation.

Attorney General Pam Bondi called the operation “historic” and “unprecedented.”

“The Department of Justice will never stop fighting to protect victims — especially child victims — and we will not rest until we hunt down, arrest, and prosecute every child predator who preys on the most vulnerable among us,” Bondi stated. “I am grateful to the FBI and their state and local partners for their incredible work in Operation Restore Justice and have directed my prosecutors not to negotiate.”

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A group of roughly a dozen young thugs linked to Tren de Aragua reportedly assaulted two New York Police Department officers in Times Square on Friday evening.

The culprits have reportedly been tied to Los Diablos de 42, a young subset of the violent Venezuelan gang TDA. The youngest suspect was just 12 years old.

‘Make no mistake, this is not low-level crime, it’s organized violence carried out by gang members that we’ve already taken off the streets for preying on New Yorkers.’

Fox News reported that five of the 11 suspects are illegal aliens from Venezuela. Those individuals have been arrested.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch detailed the brutal assault during a Tuesday press briefing.

Tisch explained that two officers approached a group of 10 to 12 individuals after they observed the mob surrounding three others.

“The officers engaged the group and attempted to break up what appeared to be a wolfpack-style robbery. Instead, they were ambushed, pelted with scooters, basketballs, and other makeshift weapons. This was a targeted attack, planned, deliberate, and carried out with intent,” Tisch stated.

Within hours of the ambush, law enforcement was able to identify some of the suspects as Los Diablos de 42 members, thanks to the city’s gang database.

Tisch called the database “one of the most critical tools that we have to protect our cops and to protect our communities.” She urged the New York City Council to abandon its efforts to abolish the database.

“We need our City Council to stop legislating against our cops and to start legislating for public safety,” Tisch declared.

She noted that all those arrested were “repeat offenders” linked to “citywide robbery patterns.”

Tisch also stated that no officers sustained any major injuries.

“Make no mistake, this is not low-level crime, it’s organized violence carried out by gang members that we’ve already taken off the streets for preying on New Yorkers,” she added. “And now they’re back, ambushing cops in the middle of Times Square. It’s not a fluke, it’s a system failure. It’s what happens when repeat offenders are allowed to cycle through arrest after arrest without meaningful accountability. It’s what happens when there are no real consequences.”

Adams emphasized that such violence would not be tolerated.

“It’s horrific enough to be a victim of a crime, but when someone openly assaults a police officer, you are attacking our symbol of safety, and it cannot be tolerated,” he said.

However, New York City’s sanctuary policies continue to shield illegal aliens from federal immigration officials.

On Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at a NYPD station, where one of the teen suspects was being held, but the agents were turned away.

Tisch stated that the NYPD is “looking into how [ICE] got there.”

“I was surprised that ICE was at a precinct because ICE shows up to do civil immigration enforcement. And the NYPD does not participate in civil immigration enforcement. And our officers did a tremendous job,” she said.

Tisch added, “They followed a procedure that we had put out in early January, an operations order, that explains exactly what steps they should take in a scenario such as that. And they did not turn over the person that was in custody to those ICE agents at that time.”

In January 2024, a mob similarly ambushed NYPD officers in Times Square. Some of those suspects were also linked to TDA.

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Taxpayers have been financing woke, anti-American indoctrination at private institutions for far too long, and the Trump administration is finally putting a stop to it.

Inez Stepman, senior policy and legal analyst for the Independent Women’s Forum, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight” that Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania are some of the worst offenders.

“Universities have made their money, for decades and decades and decades, relying on the generosity of taxpayers, and one of the strings that came with all of those federal billions was that they were going to adhere to the federal Civil Rights Act,” Stepman explains.

“Now, we see an administration that has the spine, frankly, to actually look at the text where it says “You cannot discriminate on the basis of race” and apply it to universities where they’re very clearly discriminating on the basis of race. Whether it’s in admissions, whether it’s in hiring, whether it’s by preventing, for example, Jewish students from egressing the quad, which is a very clear violation,” she continues.

“So, my question,” Savage asks, “are they going to actually see an end to the federal funding, or are they just going to get a slap on the wrist like we’ve done so many times before?”

“I absolutely think the Trump administration is going to see this through,” Stepman responds. “I think what you are really seeing is, again, the kicking and screaming phase. I think universities will either have to go fully private, which a few of them can — maybe Harvard can because it has an endowment the size of a small country’s GDP.”

“But most universities will not be able to do that, and you will see especially, I think, universities in that sort of second tier under the Ivy League start to look at the way that they’re operating and how they can or can’t attract those kinds of federal grants,” she continues.

“I think it’s really going to transform the higher ed system,” she says, adding, “I’m very optimistic about this.”

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A pro-Trump group has filed a lawsuit against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in an attempt to unravel what the group sees as judicial overreach against the Trump administration.

The lawsuit from the America First Legal Foundation seeks information from Roberts in his official capacity as head of the U.S. Judicial Conference, which meets to consider policies related to the federal court system.

‘Under our constitutional tradition, accommodations with Congress are the province of the executive branch.’

The lawsuit also lists Robert J. Conrad, the head of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. AFL argues that the conference and the administrative office have overstepped the bounds of the judiciary and encroached upon the authority of the executive branch, thereby making them subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. The lawsuit cites actions taken in 2023 to investigate allegations against Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas that led to the creation of an ethics code.

“Under our constitutional tradition, accommodations with Congress are the province of the executive branch,” said the AFL.

The two groups had denied FOIA requests demanding information regarding their interactions with Democrat politicians about the demands on the Supreme Court justices. AFL’s lawsuit aims to force both to comply with the requests.

The lawsuit would also have the two judicial organizations declared to be “independent agencies within the executive branch” and suggests that the president should have the power to appoint and remove the heads of both groups. This would swing power away from the judicial branch into the executive branch.

Supporters of the president and his policies have excoriated court rulings that they say interfere with the executive branch’s authority.

Roberts previously waded into the separation of powers debate when he issued a rare statement opposing suggestions from Trump and his allies that they would seek to impeach judges over rulings they saw as improperly politically motivated.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” wrote Roberts in March. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

The case will be presided over by U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, who was appointed by Trump. The president’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, founded AFL.

The lawsuit is described by Fox News as a long-shot effort.

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A Wisconsin Democrat’s claim about Social Security was ripped to shreds by critics on social media who accused him of purposely misleading people about the program.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) tried to drum up opposition to the Trump administration’s efforts to reform Social Security by implying that they were somehow taking money that was stashed away for the program.

‘When politicians say, “Let’s be clear,” it means, “I’m about to lie to you.”‘

“Let’s be clear: Social Security is your f**king money,” wrote Pocan on social media.

Pocan was demolished on social media for the financially illiterate take.

“It *should* be your f**king money, but since SS was set up as a Ponzi scheme instead of individual accounts, it’s not,” responded entrepreneur and business expert Carol Roth.

“Classic case of how when politicians say, ‘Let’s be clear,’ it means, ‘I’m about to lie to you,'” replied Dominic Pino of the American Institute for Economic Research.

“I would like to withdraw my money from the lockbox,” responded commentator Mary Katharine Ham.

“This is factually and practically not true. Social Security is simply a welfare program that we all have to pay into. Your family has some other benefits but that is it. Heck, you aren’t even guaranteed to get all your money back (though most people do… But not everyone),” replied Pradheep Shanker of National Review.

“Huge numbers of Americans have received much more money than they paid into the system. It’s not ‘your money.’ If it were, I’d definitely take it back and invest in something that offers me a decent rate of return,” said Mark Hemingway of RealClearInvestigations.

Social Security was instituted by Congress in 1935 over concerns that elderly Americans were impoverished and needed financial support from the federal government. The money collected at that time was immediately sent out to beneficiaries who had not previously paid into the system.

The program has since been hurtling toward insolvency at a greater pace over the years as the average U.S. age climbs higher and population growth has slowed.

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A judge has ordered a California man to stand trial on murder and manslaughter charges in connection with a car crash that killed four Pepperdine sorority sisters two years ago.

The crash occurred on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu around 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17, 2023.

‘This is a horrible, horrible case for everybody — the victims, families.’

Fraser Bohm — who reportedly was 20 years old at the time — allegedly was driving his BMW vehicle between 93 and 104 miles per hour in a 45mph zone, according to prosecutors. The car accident reportedly occurred on a section of the Pacific Coast Highway known as “Dead Man’s Curve.”

However, Bohm’s lawyer, Michael Kraut, told Fox News that witnesses corroborated his client’s assertion that he was driving “70 miles an hour, not 104” prior to the crash “and every fact that he gave was corroborated.”

Kraut noted that one of the witnesses admitted to chasing Bohm in a road-rage incident, which he contends contributed to the deadly crash.

Kraut also stated, “There was somebody who had their lights shining directly into his eyes, and he had to move over, and that was shown on a video where somebody pulled into the center median.”

Kraut added, “A woman who was in front of him saw those lights, and she moved over part of the lane and honked at him, and that startled him, and that moved him in. And that’s when the crash happened.”

Bohm said he was forced to swerve after a white car crossed into his lane and struck his driver’s side mirror, which allegedly caused him to crash into parked vehicles.

According to KABC-TV, the female driver of a white Honda Civic asserted that she never made contact with the BMW before seeing it crash into the first parked vehicle.

Photos of the Honda Civic reportedly showed no apparent damage to the car.

Bohm reportedly crashed into three parked vehicles as well as four college students.

The Pepperdine University sorority sisters — Niamh Rolston, 20; Peyton Stewart, 21; Asha Weir, 21; and Deslyn Williams, 21 — were walking along the shoulder area after getting out of a vehicle when the BMW slammed into them, according to Deputy District Attorney Nathan Bartos.

All four members of the Alpha Phi sorority died.

They were seniors at Pepperdine’s Seaver College of Liberal Arts and set to graduate with the university’s class of 2024. The victims received their degrees posthumously.

The prosecutor proclaimed, “They were killed because of the driving of the defendant.”

Last week, Superior Court Judge Diego H. Edber ordered Bohm to stand trial on murder and vehicular manslaughter charges.

Bohm was charged with four counts each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

Bohm was ordered to return to the Van Nuys courthouse for his arraignment July 1.

Kraut said, “This is a horrible, horrible case for everybody — the victims, families. It’s a horrific event. And my client’s family and my client feel distraught over what happened. But the issue is holding my client responsible for the level of crime, if any, that he committed, not just going to the top for murder.”

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A statistics professor encouraged students to protest against the Trump administration after canceling their midterms, according to an email sent to University of Chicago students.

Yali Amit told students in his machine learning and large-scale data analysis class that their midterm test was being canceled and would be administered as a homework assignment instead. Amit wrote in the email that they should join a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump.

‘Marching against this dangerous authoritarian administration is of utmost importance!’

The email was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, which noted that Amit had a history of opposing Israel and mentioned the issue in the email.

“The country is in an emergency. The Trump administration is kidnapping people off the street, deporting them to foreign prisons, jailing and threatening to deport students who demonstrated in support of Palestinians,” Amit wrote, emphasizing some parts in bold.

“So, today, thousands across the country are demonstrating in a national day of action. As a small contribution to this day of action I am cancelling the midterm and calling you, if you are able, to join the Chicago demonstration announced here,” he added. “Marching against this dangerous authoritarian administration is of utmost importance!”

Amit did not respond to a request for a comment from the Beacon or from Blaze Media. A spokesperson for the university said only that Amit’s comments were not “appropriate” but did not say what disciplinary action he might face.

A student in Amit’s class gave a comment to the Beacon to criticize the professor.

“It is inappropriate for a professor to cancel an exam to encourage students to attend a political protest,” the student said. “Furthermore the message indicates that this professor, like many others in academia, assumes that all students share his left-wing political beliefs. The professor does not recognize that students might not only prefer to attend class than protest, but may oppose the left-wing views that he is protesting for.”

The Trump administration has threatened to cut federal funding to colleges and universities over the lack of accountability for anti-Israel protests that target Jewish students for intimidation. Among those were the University of Chicago, which lost $6 million in federal funding.

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An Arizona man sort of came back from the dead to address his killer in court, thanks to artificial intelligence, leaving his family with a sense of peace but others with a sense of horror.

On Monday, the friends and family of the late Christopher Pelkey gathered in the courtroom of Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Todd Lang for the sentencing of Gabriel Horcasitas, who had been convicted of manslaughter in Pelkey’s death.

In November 2021, the two men got into a road-rage battle that escalated quickly. At a red light, Pelkey, 37, exited his vehicle and confronted Horcasitas, 50, outside of his car, at which point Horcasitas drew a weapon and fired several rounds at Pelkey, killing him, KNXV-TV reported at the time.

Now, three and a half years later, Pelkey made a return of sorts after his sister, Stacey Wales; her husband, Tim; and Tim’s friend Scott Yentzer created a video that included a simulacrum of Pelkey giving a statement written by Wales.

“I’m a version of Chris Pelkey recreated through AI that uses my picture and my voice profile,” the simulacrum said on a clip that can be viewed here.

The simulated Pelkey then addressed Horcasitas, offering forgiveness and a message of hope and redemption.

“To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me: It is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” Pelkey’s image said. “In another life, we probably could have been friends.”

“I believe in forgiveness and God who forgives. I always have, and still do,” the image continued.

The simulated Pelkey even drew attention to his digitally aged appearance, encouraging listeners not to lament the natural aging process. “This is the best I can ever give you of what I would have looked like if I got the chance to grow old,” AI Pelkey said. “Remember, getting old is a gift that not everybody has, so embrace it and stop worrying about those wrinkles.”

‘AI can … hinder or even upend justice if inappropriately used.’

Even though Pelkey’s loved ones submitted nearly 50 victim impact statements, “there was one missing piece,” Wales said. “There was one voice that was not in those letters.”

So Wales’ husband and friend Yentzer, who have worked with artificial intelligence technology for years, put their heads together to find a way to give Chris a voice. Wales said the two men created “a Frankenstein of love” using several different tools mashed together. The result is believed to be the first AI-generated victim impact statement used in an American court.

The video of Pelkey’s image had a profound emotional impact on many in the courtroom, including Pelkey’s brother John. “To see his face and to hear his voice [talk about forgiveness], just waves of healing washed over my soul. Because that was the man that I knew,” John said.

Judge Lang was likewise moved. While prosecutors had recommended a nine-and-a-half-year sentence, Judge Lang sentenced Horcasitas to 10 and a half years and professed admiration for the AI-generated victim statement.

“I love that AI,” the judge said at the hearing. “Thank you for that. I felt like that was genuine, that his obvious forgiveness of Mr. Horcasitas reflects the character I heard about today.”

Not everyone was so enthusiastic about the video, however. The New York Post described it as “eerie,” and Arizona Chief Justice Ann Timmer noted that while AI may have an important role to play in American courtrooms going forward, it should be monitored carefully.

“AI can … hinder or even upend justice if inappropriately used,” Timmer explained in a statement. “A measured approach is best. Along those lines, the court has formed an AI committee to examine AI use and make recommendations for how best to use it. At bottom, those who use AI — including courts — are responsible for its accuracy.”

Others online were similarly wary:

“This is highly inappropriate and I cannot believe it was allowed to happen in a court of law,” quipped Michigan journalist James David Dickson.”This doesn’t seem … healthy for anyone or anything involved,” said the Scottish Law Librarians Group.”The most distressing technological development of the year,” added another user.”Not sure what’s worse: the sister presenting the AI of her dead brother in court [or] the judge’s reaction to it,” said yet another user.

One X user warned loved ones against even thinking about pulling such a stunt. “If I die and you do this s*** to me I will haunt your a** like you would not believe,” the user promised. “I’m talkin VERY spooky antics.”

Peter Gietl, managing editor of Return at Blaze Media, is likewise disgusted that an “AI ghost” was admitted into an American court of law.

“I can’t believe a judge would allow a kangaroo court to occur in a court of law. The defendant should try to get a mistrial declared,” he told Blaze News in a statement. “Unfortunately, these AI ghosts are going to become more common. However, they aren’t the real person any more than a cartoon is.”

“An AI creation of a deceased family member is not your family member, and disturbing at a core level of our humanity.”

Still, Wales seems at peace with the video and statement she helped create on her late brother’s behalf. “I want the world to know Chris existed,” she said. “If one person hears his name or sees this footage and goes to his Facebook page or looks him up on YouTube, they will hear Chris’ love.”

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The WNBA’s newest star claimed white athletes have more “marketability” and receive more coverage than black athletes.

Paige Bueckers was an NCAA star at the University of Connecticut with huge endorsements from companies like Nike, Taco Bell, Nerf, and Gatorade. After being selected No. 1 in the WNBA Draft by the Dallas Wings, Bueckers has another great opportunity to star on a team that just made a move to a larger arena.

While her past success, basketball IQ, and perseverance through injuries were the focus of a lengthy piece in Time, Bueckers took the opportunity to confess that she believes she, and all white people, have “white privilege.”

Bueckers said black women are under covered by the media, noting, “It’s still an issue, every single day.”

“There’s not ever equal coverage,” she told the outlet. “There’s white privilege every single day that I see.”

The 23-year-old continued, “I feel like I’ve worked extremely hard, blessed by God. But I do think there’s more opportunities for me. I feel like even just marketability, people tend to favor white people, white males, white women. I think it should be equal opportunity. I feel like there is privilege to what I have, and to what all white people have. I recognize that, I want to counteract that with the way I go about my business.”

Bueckers has been making strange, racially driven comments since a young age; at just 19, she accepted an ESPN award and said she wanted to “show a light on black women” because they “don’t get the media coverage that they deserve.”

“They’ve given so much to this sport and the community and society as a whole, and their value is undeniable,” Bueckers said in 2021.

‘It doesn’t matter how hard I work. It doesn’t matter what we all do as black women.’

This narrative has been mentioned consistently by players in the WNBA. For example, Las Vegas Aces player A’ja Wilson claimed in a 2024 interview that WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark is more popular and more marketable because she is white, while black women are ignored.

“They don’t see it as marketable,” Wilson said of the unnamed powers that be. “It doesn’t matter how hard I work. It doesn’t matter what we all do as black women, we’re still going to be swept underneath the rug. That’s why it boils my blood when people say it’s not about race because it is.”

After conducting the interview but before it was published, Wilson was signed to a signature shoe deal by Nike and an endorsement with Gatorade.

Clark herself has spread similar sentiments, participating in a Nike marketing campaign that said women are not able to succeed, despite the campaign receiving massive 50-foot banners in Chicago.

Clark had previously told Time that she cannot attribute all of her success to her hard work but said a bulk of it was due to her white privilege.

“I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege,” she said at the time. About a day later, Clark contradicted her statements again while speaking with Time.

“I feel like I’ve earned every single thing that’s happened to me over the course of my career.”

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