Amazon cars?

Amazon changed the way America buys books, clothes, electronics, and groceries. Now it is moving on the auto industry — and if you think this is just another “online shopping feature,” you’re missing the real story.

States that are friendly to corporate expansion will see no problem granting Amazon a dealer license — especially if Amazon frames it as ‘consumer choice.’

The retail behemoth isn’t dipping a toe into car sales. It is positioning itself to become the central hub for buying new and used vehicles, and the consequences for automakers, dealers, independent media, and referral sites could be massive.

This isn’t a future concept. It is already happening.

First Hyundai, now Ford

Amazon’s initial partnership with Hyundai was framed as a new, streamlined shopping experience. The pitch sounded harmless enough: browse Hyundai vehicles on Amazon, apply for financing online, complete most of the paperwork digitally, then head to a participating dealer to pick up your car. Simple, familiar, and built into the platform millions of people already use every day.

The original Hyundai-Amazon announcement described the partnership as “a first-of-its-kind digital shopping destination” that makes buying or leasing “easier than ever.” It taps directly into Amazon’s strongest asset — consumer trust.

But Hyundai was only the beginning.

Ford is now joining Amazon Autos with its certified pre-owned inventory. Behind the scenes, Amazon is simultaneously negotiating with CarMax, Carvana, AutoNation, and some of the largest dealer groups in the country. This isn’t a test run. It’s the early build of a national automotive marketplace — one that Amazon plans to control.

Referral sites in retreat?

For years, companies like Cars.com, CarGurus, TrueCar, Edmunds, and Cox Automotive have dominated the referral business. Their entire model revolves around sending shoppers to dealers and collecting millions in referral fees — often the largest part of their revenue.

Amazon is about to pull the rug out from under them. This could put their business model and future in jeopardy.

If car shoppers can browse inventory, arrange financing, compare models, complete paperwork, and reserve vehicles on Amazon, why would they bother with referral sites that offer a fraction of the convenience?

Amazon has a proven track record: Once it enters a sector, it tends to dominate it. It did it to bookstores. It did it to electronics retailers. It did it to big-box chains. And now it’s setting its sights on automotive commerce.

If Amazon becomes the go-to destination for car-buying, referral-based businesses won’t just take a hit — they could be wiped out entirely.

Licensed dealership

The long-term play is even more ambitious.

Amazon’s next strategic step is to secure dealer franchises and licenses — state by state, brand by brand. With enough lobbying power (and Amazon has plenty), it could position itself not just as a marketplace but as a licensed dealer for multiple brands across numerous states.

At that point, Amazon wouldn’t just connect you with a dealership. It would be the dealership.

And it’s not far-fetched. Amazon already has the infrastructure, logistics, consumer reach, and political influence to take this step. States that are friendly to corporate expansion will see no problem granting Amazon a dealer license — especially if Amazon frames it as “consumer choice.”

Once Amazon becomes a licensed dealer for even one or two brands, the floodgates open.

Global ambitions

Make no mistake: Amazon is positioning itself not just as an American car retailer, but as a global auto marketplace.

Imagine a future where you search for a vehicle the same way you search for appliances or running shoes — across multiple brands, with real-time comparisons, financing, protection plans, verified seller ratings, and home delivery.

For Amazon, becoming the global hub for car shopping isn’t just appealing — it’s a potential trillion-dollar expansion.

Automakers, especially those with weaker dealer networks, may see this as an opportunity. But others will find themselves pressured into joining Amazon’s ecosystem simply because they can’t afford not to.

Collateral damage: Independent media

There’s another consequence many aren’t talking about: the impact on independent automotive media.

A large share of industry publications rely on advertising, sponsorships, affiliate links, and referral revenue from dealers and OEMs. Amazon’s dominance would compress or eliminate those revenue streams — especially for outlets that depend on SEO-driven traffic or links sending shoppers to dealer websites.

If Amazon becomes the central platform for car buying, reviews, ratings, and consumer research will inevitably shift to Amazon’s ecosystem — just as they have for home goods, tech products, and household essentials.

The result? Independent voices may struggle to survive.

This is not theoretical. This is the pattern Amazon has repeated in every industry it enters.

At first glance, more convenience sounds great for shoppers. And in many ways, Amazon’s entrance will make car-buying easier.

But there are real questions about:

Competition: What happens when Amazon dictates the marketplace?Pricing leverage: Will dealers be forced into Amazon’s system to survive?Data control: Amazon would have unprecedented access to sensitive buyer information.Dependence: When everything flows through one platform, innovation suffers.

Automotive choice in the U.S. has always relied on competition. Amazon’s expansion risks shifting that power to a single company.

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Own the funnel

Amazon isn’t simply adding cars to its website. It is setting the foundation to become the dominant force in automotive retail.

Hyundai was the first step. Ford is the next. They are selling used and certified pre-owned inventory. The question is when, not if, more brands will follow.

And when they do, the entire structure of the auto industry — from referral sites to dealer groups to independent media — will feel the effects.

This is one of the most significant shifts in automotive commerce in decades. And while many consumers may appreciate the convenience, the long-term consequences deserve serious attention.

Amazon wants to be the new place to buy cars. It plans to own the entire funnel — from discovery to financing to purchase. And if history tells us anything, once Amazon commits to owning a category, it tends to get what it wants.

This story is still unfolding. And it is far bigger than most people realize.

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Welcome to Sesame Street. The word of the day is “affordability.”

Democrats have treated it as a magic spell ever since their 2024 collapse drove the party’s approval to historic lows. New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and governors-elect Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey ran very different races, yet all credited their wins to a relentless focus on the cost of living. Mamdani in particular used the term like an incantation to bury a record full of extremist statements and friendly nods toward terrorist movements.

Turning ‘affordability’ into a political idol guarantees policies that cannibalize the future.

Democrats also see the “affordability” push as an opportunity to turn Republicans’ most effective weapon against them. Joe Biden’s low approval ratings on the economy dogged him throughout his entire term, and his constant insistence that things were improving did not cut the (suddenly expensive) mustard.

Republican anxiety grows

On his first day back in office, Donald Trump ordered “all executive departments and agencies to deliver emergency price relief.” But Democrats’ stronger-than-expected showing in the 2025 elections has GOP strategists wondering whether that relief is moving too slowly to blunt the message.

Trump, who dominated the 2024 campaign by hammering prices, sounds irritated that his best issue has turned into a liability. He avoids the word “affordability,” though it has begun sneaking into his teleprompter.

“We’re making incredible strides to Make America Affordable Again,” he told the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum. “Democrats had the worst inflation in history. They had the highest prices in history. The country was going to hell. … We’re bringing prices down.”

A political arms race

Both parties now talk about the cost of living as their top priority, and struggling families need the attention. But a politics built around “affordability” can easily turn into a race to the bottom — an auction of quick fixes that burn next year’s seed corn for a bump in the polls.

Plenty of shortcuts tempt politicians. Mamdani floated the most obvious one: freezing rents across one million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. If he pulls it off — a big “if” — tenants will enjoy short-term relief. Yet the move will also choke new construction and allow existing homes to deteriorate as landlords lose the revenue needed to maintain them.

Beware of quick fixes

Even Republicans flirt with shortcuts. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) teamed up on a bill capping credit-card interest rates at 10%. Cheaper interest sounds great until you follow the consequences. A hard cap would force lenders to reject more applications, denying low-income Americans the credit they often need to escape poverty or cover emergencies.

Republicans face their own affordability temptation as well. AI data centers, which consume enormous amounts of power, are driving up electric bills faster than increased energy production can offset. Slowing or freezing data-center construction could save households money for a year or two. It would also cripple America’s position in the AI race with China and cost the country trillions of dollars in long-term economic growth.

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Tariffs under fire

Trump’s tariffs have become a favorite target for Democrats claiming to champion affordability. The administration recently eased tariffs on food imports such as bananas and coffee. But gutting the entire tariff regime — if the Supreme Court allows it to remain in place — would be a profound mistake.

Tariffs have pushed some prices upward, but the Harvard Business School tariff tracker estimates that only 20% of tariff costs reach consumers. Foreign companies and foreign governments absorb the rest.

Meanwhile, tariff revenue strengthens the government’s financial footing, and trillions of dollars in investment continue to flow into new and expanded U.S. manufacturing. Reverting to the failed neoliberal free-trade dogma in the name of “affordability” might give politicians a quick approval boost. It would gut the industrial base, weaken the budget, and destroy the very blue-collar jobs voters were promised.

Our marshmallow test

Blaming the other party for rising prices works because it taps into real pain. But it also encourages the kind of policymaking you would expect from the child in the famous experiment who couldn’t wait 15 minutes for a second marshmallow. He ate the first one instantly and lost the reward.

The cost of living in America (to say nothing of thriving) is far too high. Families need real relief. But turning “affordability” into a political idol guarantees policies that cannibalize the future. Prosperity demands discipline. A country that chases quick fixes will never escape its long-term economic traps.

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Republicans in Indiana have developed a redistricting map that could lead to two more seats for their party in the U.S. House if they are able to pass it into law.

President Donald Trump has called on state Republicans to redistrict congressional maps in order to strengthen the party’s position ahead of the midterm elections in 2026. If passed, the proposed map could mean Indiana has nine Republican representatives in Congress and zero Democrats, instead of the current seven Republicans and two Democrats.

‘They could be depriving Republicans of a Majority in the House, A VERY BIG DEAL!’

One of the Democrats who might be redistricted out of power called the map “ridiculous” in a statement on social media.

“Hoosier values matter more than DC threats and bullying. Splicing [sic] our state’s largest city — and its biggest economic driver — into four parts is ridiculous,” wrote Rep. Andre Carson. “It’s clear these orders are coming from Washington, and they clearly don’t know the first thing about our community. Hoosiers have made their voices heard and won’t stand for it.”

Another Democrat facing redistricting spoke out against the proposal in November.

“You will accelerate extremism,” said Rep. Frank Mrvan. “You will accelerate the mindset of people who are safe within that party who will get primaried by the far right or the far left, and you will have the most extreme, divided nation you could possibly have.”

One stumbling block on the road to redistricting is the state’s Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, a Republican who is against the proposal.

Bray and another Republican opposed to redistricting were lambasted by Trump in a post on social media in November.

“The Democrats have done redistricting for years, often illegally, and all other appropriate Republican States have done it. Because of these two politically correct type ‘gentlemen,’ and a few others, they could be depriving Republicans of a Majority in the House, A VERY BIG DEAL!” he wrote.

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Another Indiana state representative argued that the map was necessary to counterbalance Democrat actions in other states.

“I’ll 100% be voting for this. Blue states are redrawing their maps to crush Republicans. Why should we play by different rules and protect radicals like Andre Carson?” wrote Republican state Rep. Andrew Ireland.

“9-0 or bust,” he concluded.

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The post-colonial grievance industry successfully infected the worlds of academia, entertainment, and politics over the past century with its anti-Western brand of revisionist victim politics. As a result, various middling individuals who were not personally injured by perceived historical injustices found it possible and even lucrative to exploit the guilt of the faultless many.

Following the recent revelation that the Sacramento native dubbed by Canadian state media as “one of the most influential indigenous writers and scholars of his generation” was never an Indian to begin with, Blaze News has finalized its top-five list of fake Indians in North America.

1. Thomas King

Since obtaining his doctorate in English/American studies from the University of Utah in the late 1980s, Sacramento-born Thomas King has made his supposed Cherokee heritage the center of his identity and output.

He taught native studies courses across the United States and Canada; lectured extensively on the subject of Native American identity, rights, history, and grievances; penned numerous books on theme, including “The Inconvenient Indian,” “The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative,” and “A Short History of Indians in Canada”; had a comedy radio show on Canadian state radio where he periodically mocked white people and their supposed misconceptions about Indians; and spent decades engaged in Indian-related political activism.

For his efforts, King has been showered with numerous lucrative awards — including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award — and government grants. He was not only made a member of the Order of Canada but promoted to companion of the Order of Canada for exposing “the hard truths of the injustices of the indigenous peoples of North America.”

The 82-year-old writer turns out to have been of European stock all along.

Late last month, King, whose mother’s side of the family is Greek, told the Globe and Mail that in a Nov. 13 meeting with the director of the North Carolina-based Cherokee group Tribal Alliance Against Frauds and a supposedly Indian professor at the University of British Columbia, he was confronted with genealogical evidence indicating there was no Cherokee ancestry on either side of his family.

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Thomas King, an influential writer of European heritage. Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images.

“I didn’t know I didn’t have Cherokee on my father’s side of the family until I saw the genealogical evidence,” said King. “As soon as I saw it, I was fairly sure it was accurate. It’s pretty clear.”

‘Indians don’t cry.’

King indicated he had previously heard rumors that he was not an Indian but that nothing came of them.

“No Cherokee on the King side. No Cherokee on the Hunt side. No Indians anywhere to be found,” King subsequently noted in an op-ed. “At 82, I feel as though I’ve been ripped in half, a one-legged man in a two-legged story. Not the Indian I had in mind. Not an Indian at all.”

2. Iron Eyes Cody

The group Keep America Beautiful’s iconic “Crying Indian” anti-litter public service announcement, which debuted on television in 1971, shows a supposed Indian, Iron Eyes Cody, dressed in beaded moccasins and buck-skin attire paddling his canoe down a river, past a dockyard, and onto a beach covered in garbage, where he sheds a tear at the sight of a vehicle passenger throwing a paper bag full of fast food out a car window.

This was hardly the first or only time Cody wore his feathers in front of cameras.

Iron Eyes Cody with President Jimmy Carter. Getty Images.

Cody, who the New York Times indicated initially resisted doing the commercial because “Indians don’t cry,” played an American Indian in numerous movies, engaged in Indian-related activism, and long maintained that he was the genuine article.

Although Cody claimed he was born in Oklahoma territory to a Cherokee Indian father and a Cree mother, he was in fact the son of Italian immigrants, Francesca Salpietra and Antonio DeCorti, who arrived in the U.S. two years before his birth in Louisiana. His original name was Espera DeCorti.

According to Snopes, he changed his name from DeCorti to Cody after moving to Hollywood in the 1920s and began masquerading as an American Indian.

3. Sacheen Littlefeather

Sacheen Littlefeather, Marlon Brando’s stand-in at the 1973 Academy Awards, refused the Oscar for Best Actor on behalf of the “Godfather” star, citing “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry … and on television in movie re-runs, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee.”

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Throughout her life, Littlefeather claimed that she was an Apache Indian. Her sisters revealed, however, that Littlefeather, who died in October 2022, was the daughter of a Spanish-American and a woman of European descent.

The activist’s real name was Marie Louise Cruz.

‘Being Native American has been part of my story, I guess.’

Jacqueline Keeler, a member of the Navajo Nation who undertook genealogical research for Cruz’s sister, reportedly found that “all of the family’s cousins, great-aunts, uncles, and grandparents going back to about 1880 (when their direct ancestors crossed the border from Mexico) identified as white, Caucasian, and Mexican on key legal documents in the United States.”

4. Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie is an Academy Award-winning folk singer who has claimed Native American heritage since the early 1960s.

In her agitprop and activism, Sainte-Marie has spoken from what Teen Vogue called an “indigenous perspective,” repeatedly condemning colonization and referring to America’s founding and the supposed erasure of American Indians as “genocide.” She also has touted herself as a “survivor” of an allegedly racist government welfare program that placed certain Native American kids in foster homes.

After five decades of claiming to have Indian heritage — at one stage claiming she was a “full-blooded Algonquin Indian,” at another that she was “half-Micmac by birth,” and finally that she was Cree, born on the Piapot First Nation reserve in Saskatchewan — she was outed by Canadian state media as a fraud.

Documents obtained by the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, including her birth certificate, revealed that Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts; that her original name was Beverly Jean Santamaria; and that her parents were Albert and Winifred Santamaria, who were of Italian and English backgrounds, respectively.

The singer’s sister stated, “She’s clearly not indigenous or Native American.”

Sainte-Marie, who like Thomas King had been made a member of the Order of Canada, had her membership revoked after it was revealed she was another fake Indian. She was also stripped of her Juno Awards and Polaris Music Prizes, although she was reportedly able to keep the substantial cash prizes they came with.

5. Elizabeth Warren

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is another affluent liberal woman who masqueraded for decades as an American Indian for apparent personal gain, going so far as to contribute five recipes to a 1984 cookbook characterized as “recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families” called “Pow Wow Chow.“

Warren told reporters in 2012, “Being Native American has been part of my story, I guess, since the day I was born.”

While working at the University of Texas School of Law, Warren not only claimed “American Indian” status on her State Bar of Texas registration card but listed herself in the Association of American Law Schools annual directory as a minority law professor. Since she did not bother correcting her minority identification after the release of the 1986-1987 edition, it appeared that way in the next eight editions, reported the Boston Globe.

Just after she began formally identifying as a minority in the late 1980s, Warren landed a full-time job offer from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Three years after securing the job, university records reportedly indicated that Warren leaned on the university to ensure that her ethnicity was listed as “Native American” instead of “white.”

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UPenn’s April 2005 Minority Equity Report clearly lists Warren was a “minority.” According to the Boston Globe, for at least three of the years Warren taught at the law school, she was listed as the solitary American Indian female professor.

In the 1990s, Warren moved on to work at Harvard Law School, which was sure to note her supposedly Indian heritage. The Globe indicated that Harvard Law School used Warren’s fake minority status to justify not hiring more minorities.

‘I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as native my whole life.’

In 2018, President Donald Trump, who had long derided Warren as “Pocahontas,” challenged the senator to get a DNA test to prove she was Native American. The test results came back showing that she was only 1/1,024th Native American if at all.

When Warren ran unsuccessfully for president in 2020, over 200 Cherokee and other Native Americans signed an open letter to the senator noting, “Whatever your intentions, your actions have normalized white people claiming to be native, and perpetuated a dangerous misunderstanding of tribal sovereignty. Your actions do not exist in a vacuum but are part of a long and violent history.”

Dishonorable mentions

Among the others who have benefited greatly from pretending to be Indians are:

Jamake Highwater was an award-winning writer and journalist who penned over 30 books, including “Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey” and “The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America,” usually from an American Indian perspective. Highwater led the public to believe that he was born to an illiterate Blackfoot mother and a Cherokee father, who dumped him in an orphanage, where a couple in Southern California picked him up and raised him. However, Assiniboine activist Hank Adams and Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson exposed Highwater as another fraud. Highwater’s original name was Jackie Marks. He was apparently the Jewish son of a Russian mother and a father of Eastern European descent who worked as an actor in Hollywood.Elizabeth Hoover is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who long claimed to be of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent. Hoover admitted in May 2023, “I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as native my whole life.” The Berkeley professor confirmed that had she not been “perceived as a native scholar,” she may not have received some academic fellowships, opportunities, and material benefits. Despite admitting to causing harm and benefiting from her fraudulent identity, she did not resign.Heather Rae is an award-winning producer who served on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance and previously led the Sundance Institute’s Native American program. She was accused by the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds in 2023 of lying about being Cherokee. Rae told the Hollywood Reporter in a puff piece that appeared to vex the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, “I think there’s a lot of nuance to this identity.”Joseph Boyden is a prominent Canadian novelist who was regarded at one point as “arguably the most celebrated indigenous author in Canadian history.” His writing largely centered on Indian characters and their experiences. Boyden, the recipient of numerous awards and grants, claimed over the years that there was Métis, Mi’kmaq, Ojibway, and/or Nipmuc blood in his family’s mix. In one instance, when buying a significant portion of land, he reportedly claimed to be Metis and showed a photocopied tribal card. When he was first exposed as another fraud in 2016, he claimed that his family’s Indian roots had been “whitewashed” due “to the destructive influences of colonialism.” While Boyden later admitted he was a “white kid from Willowdale,” he maintained that he had “native roots” on his Irish Catholic father’s side as well as on his mother’s side.

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Ana Navarro of “The View” has said she’s giving Marjorie Taylor Greene the “benefit of the doubt,” claiming Greene’s decision to leave Congress was sparked by a supposed political wake-up call — and that her future might not be Republican.

“People call me naive, but I give her the benefit of the doubt,” Navarro began. “I do think that the Charlie Kirk assassination was an ‘aha’ moment for her.”

“In terms of, ‘Do I really want to be a part of this horrible political climate and of the polarization and the weaponizing of government and of speech and all of that stuff.’ I also think she could have served one more year if she wanted, right? Her term is not over until January of 2027,” she continued.

Navarro went on to explain that something will have to change within Greene’s career, as she doesn’t “think she gets out of the problem of being on the other side of Trump in a Republican primary if she runs as a Republican for Senate.”

“That’s some real insight,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray jokes.

“They’re just saying … ‘if she runs for Senate, she’s not going to win that battle, and she should just come to work for us,’” co-host Jeff Fisher chimes in.

“And maybe she will,” Gray agrees. “I mean, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene is not hard up for money.”

“It is a good gig,” he continues. “You just sit there and yap, babble, talk about stuff you know nothing about for an hour a day, and you’re done. … And you know they don’t spend any more time in preparation than that.”

“They stay in their little bubble and believe everything that MSNBC tells them and spew it. They just regurgitate it,” he adds.

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Police in DeLand, Florida, said a male knocked on the back door of a residence in the 100 block of Voorhis Street on Monday, WOFL-TV reported.

A woman inside the home opened the door, thinking it was a delivery, police told the station.

‘Unfortunately, for the invader, you have a right to protect your home. You have a right to protect your life.’

However, police told WOFL the male at the door was brandishing a gun — and forced his way into the home.

But another man inside the home — believed to be the woman’s husband — grabbed a gun of his own and ordered the intruder multiple times to drop his weapon, police told the station.

Authorities said when the intruder refused to obey the commands, the homeowner shot the intruder in the chest, WOFL reported.

The intruder fled the home, the station said, adding that arriving officers soon found the wounded suspect in a wooded area a few blocks away from the scene.

WOFL said he was airlifted to a hospital.

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The station said the suspect is facing a number of pending charges while he’s in the hospital, including armed burglary, aggravated assault with a firearm, and destruction of evidence. Volusia County Sheriff’s Office deputies believe the intruder dumped the gun, WOFL reported.

The homeowner was not charged with any crime, the station added.

Police said based on preliminary information, the intruder is believed to have had a prior relationship with the woman in the home, WOFL noted, adding that the woman told police the suspect had been stalking her.

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“Unfortunately, for the invader, you have a right to protect your home,” DeLand Police Capt. Prurince Dice said Monday, according to the station. “You have a right to protect your life.”

The shooting remains under investigation, WOFL said, adding that police believe it was an isolated incident and that there is no ongoing threat to the public.

Detectives are working to confirm all the details, the station added, including the possible history between the intruder and the people inside the home.

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