Las Vegas police bodycam and helicopter video shows what led to a motorist taking down a domestic violence strangulation suspect earlier this month.

Police said officers on March 10 responded to a domestic violence incident involving a reported strangulation.

‘This video highlights how coordination from the air, rapid response on the ground, and the courage of community members can make all the difference.’

As officers were working to locate the suspect, he fled — leading to a “dangerous series of events” near West Desert Inn Road and South Decatur Boulevard, police said.

Police said the department’s Air Unit tracked the suspect as he drove erratically through the area — and then moments later the suspect crashed, which led to a foot chase.

Police said two citizens, witnessing the chaos unfold, took action and used their vehicles to help block in and stop the suspect.

Video shows one of the assisting motorists exiting his vehicle, grabbing the suspect from behind, and taking him down to the ground.

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Image source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department helicopter video screenshot

The motorist then sat on the suspect’s back, restraining him, until an arresting officer arrived on the scene and placed the suspect in handcuffs.

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Image source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department bodycam video screenshot

Check out the video compilation below from police showing the suspect speeding through the area, crashing into traffic, running away, and then being taken to the ground by the assisting motorist.

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Police said the suspect fled from a domestic dispute involving strangulation, and approximately five vehicles were involved in the crash.

Police said that “this video highlights how coordination from the air, rapid response on the ground, and the courage of community members can make all the difference.”

“We are grateful for a community that steps up to help keep one another safe,” police added.

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President Donald Trump told America’s allies to fend for themselves as the Strait of Hormuz continues to constrain the world’s oil supply.

Trump called on countries like the United Kingdom to either buy American oil or to “build up some delayed courage” and go into the strait themselves. Trump also said that he had already done all the dirty work, telling other countries they need to start relying on themselves rather than the United States.

‘The upcoming days will be decisive.’

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you,” Trump said in the Truth Social post Tuesday. “Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.”

“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us,” Trump said. “Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!”

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Trump later called out another European ally for its lack of cooperation with the Iran strikes, warning that the United States will remember.

“The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the ‘Butcher of Iran,’ who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!!”

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The United States is officially on day 31 of the conflict with Iran, which is still within the four- to six-week timeline floated by Trump and members of the administration.

“Just one month in, only one month, we set the terms,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said during a Tuesday press conference. “The upcoming days will be decisive. Iran knows that, and there’s almost nothing they can military do about it.”

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Second lady Usha Vance announced the launch of her new children’s podcast on Monday.

The podcast, “Storytime with the Second Lady,” features Vance and special guests, including celebrities, children’s authors, athletes, veterans, and musicians as they read books to children.

“Very proud of my wife, Usha, for launching her podcast today!” Vice President JD Vance wrote in a post on social media.

‘The second lady is passionate about childhood education and hopes to inspire a lifelong love of learning in children across the country.’

The show’s first three episodes were released on Spotify and YouTube on Monday.

In episode one, Vance read one of her favorite childhood stories, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter.

“Story time with my kids is the highlight of my day,” Vance stated. “Books have taken our family on so many adventures. Through books, we’ve learned so many new things about science and nature, faraway countries, ancient civilizations, America’s history, and more. Most of all, we’ve had lots of fun reading together. I thought it would be even more fun to share story time with all of you. So every few weeks, we’ll gather here in my office to read together.”

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Special guests joined Vance in the second and third episodes of her podcast. Race car driver Danica Patrick joined the show to read Disney’s “Cars,” and Paralympic bronze medalist Brent Poppen read his book, “Playground Lessons.”

Vance’s podcast is part of her ongoing initiative to increase childhood literacy rates and inspire a love of reading in children, according to a press release from the Second Lady’s office.

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Vance launched a Summer Reading Challenge in June 2025 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Participants were asked to read 12 books of their choice over the summer and track their progress. Those who completed the challenge received a personalized certificate and a small prize. Vance’s office reported receiving tens of thousands of submissions from across the country.

“The second lady is passionate about childhood education and hopes to inspire a lifelong love of learning in children across the country,” a spokesperson for the second lady told Blaze News. “Last year, the second lady’s Summer Reading Challenge received overwhelming support, and Ms. Vance hopes to continue sharing passion for literature with children across the country in an age-appropriate and accessible format through her podcast.”

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For decades, users suspected that Google was listening in on conversations through their smartphones, oftentimes serving ads for products that users spoke about in casual conversation but didn’t actually search for online. While no wrongdoing has been admitted or found, the suspicions are gaining new attention as Google has agreed — citing the “uncertainty, risk, expense, inconvenience, and distraction” involved — to settle a years-long illicit eavesdropping case for a cool $68 million.

The lawsuit

The class action lawsuit, which was filed all the way back in July 2019, alleged that any Google and/or Android devices with Google Assistant hotword detection enabled both recorded and transmitted anything it heard — including conversations — back to Google’s servers without users’ knowledge.

If you just want to kick Google out of your conversations, it’s easy to pull the plug.

A hotword is a phrase you can use to invoke the assistant on your smart devices without touching or otherwise interacting with them. To see if hotword detection is active on your phone, try this quick trick: Android users can say “OK, Google” or “Hey, Google” to bring up the virtual assistant, while iPhone users can say, “Hey, Siri” to invoke the Apple assistant. If your phone immediately lights up and starts to listen to your commands, then your phone could be spying on you.

Before jumping to conclusions, it’s important to note that hotword detection is only supposed to listen for those specific “Hey” or “OK” commands before actively capturing data to answer your query. The lawsuit, however, claims that Google and Android devices recorded data without invoking a hotword.

While the lawsuit specifically alleges Google Assistant is the big offender, Google has since abandoned that service for Gemini, its in-house AI. But Gemini works exactly like Google Assistant, letting users summon the service on an Android device with the same “Hey, Google” or “OK, Google” command. In other words, it has the capability to enable listening of the same kind.

Google has a whole eavesdropping ecosystem

The tricky part about Google Assistant — and now Google Gemini — is that it’s embedded in a wide range of devices. Hotword detection can be enabled on most Android handsets, including Samsung Galaxy phones and Google Pixel phones. For Android fans, that means you carry Google’s listening software in your pocket every day, waiting to hear those magic words that give it permission to record what you say.

But, of course, Google isn’t limited to working through your phone. The same service works on Google’s family of smart home products, including those with the Google Home and Google Nest badge. You’ll find it on Android tablets too, as well as Wear OS smartwatches, such as the Google Pixel Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watches.

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It’s everywhere throughout Google’s broad first-party and third-party ecosystem, covering an install base of approximately four billion devices worldwide, giving it access to a massive expanse of data.

How to disable hotword detection on Android devices

Google’s hotword detection is helpful if you like to get information from your device completely hands-free, such as asking for directions to a location, playing a song from your favorite app, or sending a quick text message to your spouse on your way home from work. If you don’t care about these things though, or if you just want to kick Google out of your conversations, it’s easy to pull the plug on hotword detection entirely:

Open the Google app on your Android phone.Tap your profile picture in the top right corner.Then tap “Settings.”In the Settings menu, tap “Gemini.”Then “Talk to Gemini hands-free.”Finally, uncheck the toggles beside “Hey, Google” and “While driving.”

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw

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New York City’s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced a free child care program for city workers after previously claiming the city faces a $12 billion budget deficit. His goal is to provide universal child care to all New York City residents, and the program is being implemented in phases.

Mamdani held a press conference on Monday to unveil NYC’s first free, on-site child care pilot program, which will serve year-round approximately 40 children ages 6 weeks to 3 years.

‘When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap.’

The program will begin in the fall after the city completes its $10 million renovation at the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to create a 4,000-square-foot child care facility. The building currently houses over 2,000 employees.

The mayor’s office claims the program will put “upwards of $20,000 a year back in the pockets of working families.”

“Change begins at home. As we deliver universal child care to New Yorkers, that work must include the public servants who keep this city running,” Mamdani stated. “We are bringing year-round, no-cost child care right here to Lower Manhattan — not just saving families money, but giving them back hours of their time. No parent should have to spend hours commuting just to ensure their child is safe and cared for.”

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Mamdani’s campaign has estimated that the mayor’s universal child care program will cost $6 billion annually.

Shortly after being inaugurated early this year, Mamdani claimed that New York City was “facing a serious fiscal crisis.”

“There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city’s budget to the tune of at least $12 billion,” he stated in January.

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Mamdani blamed former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for the city’s alleged budget crisis. Adams has consistently denied leaving a deficit in the city’s budget, insisting instead that he left over $8 billion in reserves.

Mamdani provided an update on the city’s budget in February, stating, “When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap. Our aggressive savings plan, daily incorporation of updated revenue and bonus estimates, and our deployment of in-year reserves in tandem with more than a billion dollars in additional aid from Governor [Kathy] Hochul, have lowered that deficit from an initial $12 billion to $5.4 billion. While considerably less, it is still a significant chasm.”

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President Donald Trump’s administration has recruited Scott Brady, a lead prosecutor from the Hunter Biden investigation, to aid Vice President JD Vance’s task force to eliminate fraud.

Brady served as the lead prosecutor against Hunter Biden as well as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania during Trump’s first term, where he focused on prosecuting health care and COVID-era fraud schemes. Brady currently serves as special counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services aiding the crackdown on grant fraud and will now serve as the executive director of the task force.

‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.’

Brady was also handpicked to investigate Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” where prosecutors looked into corruption charges against former President Joe Biden’s son.

“In my investigation of Hunter, despite not having a grand jury, we were the only investigation which found an actual smoking gun detailing bribes to Hunter and then-VP Biden, in the Smirnov FD-1023, which detailed Burisma Chairman Zlochevsky’s $10M bribe to Hunter and Joe Biden,” a online biography of Brady reviewed by the Daily Wire reads.

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“I am proud to have served under President Trump in his first term, and I am excited to see an unapologetically muscular strategy being executed in the second term,” the bio continues. ”As President Reagan presciently said, ‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It has to be fought for and defended by each generation.’”

The task force was first convened last week with Vice President JD Vance at the helm. During the meeting, Vance commended Trump’s numerous “anti-fraud protections” implemented during his second term, pointing the finger at the Biden administration.

“This is not just theft of the American people’s money,” Vance said of the uptick in fraud under Biden. “This is also the theft of critical services that American people rely on.”

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Brady’s appointment to the role was made official on Thursday, according to the Daily Wire, and he attended the task force’s first meeting on Friday.

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The Chicago Bulls have dumped 24-year-old guard Jaden Ivey after he made comments in support of God and against Pride Month.

Ivey’s stint with the Bulls is over after just four games, following a trade from the Detroit Pistons in early February.

‘God did not make a man to be with a man.’

The Bulls waived Ivey on Monday — which means his contract can be picked up by another team — after the guard criticized gay pride and the NBA on his Instagram page.

“The world can proclaim LGBTQ, they proclaim Pride Month, and the NBA, they proclaim it,” Ivey said from inside a vehicle.

“God did not make a man to be with a man. God did not make a girl to be with a girl. God made a man for the purpose of procreation to have another child,” Ivey added.

It did not take long for the Bulls to catch wind of the young player’s comments, and the organization announced at 6 p.m. that he was being let go.

“The Chicago Bulls announced today that the team has waived guard Jaden Ivey due to conduct detrimental to the team,” the Bulls said in a statement shared to social media.

Before their game on Monday evening, Bulls head coach Billy Donovan told the media that the organization expects certain standards to be upheld.

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“We’ve got people from all different backgrounds, you know, inside the organization,” Donovan said after a reporter claimed Ivey was spiraling.

“We’re all going to basically take care of each other. We’re going to accept each other. And I think we’re going to be hardworking, we’re going to be accountable, and we’re going to be respectful, and we’re going to be professional,” the coach continued.

Donovan concluded, “I think, organizationally, there’s certain standards I think we want to have as an organization and try to live up to those each and every day.”

Ivey was quick to jump back on social media on Monday night and call the Bulls’ reasoning into question.

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“Why didn’t they just say, ‘We don’t agree with his stance on LGBTQ?'” Ivey asked.

“How? Because I believe in the truth because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life?”

He added, “This is not about me. This is about the kingdom of God. This is about the truth, the truth of the Bible, because I spoke what the truth is. I called these things out because that’s what it is. The word of God will be preached to all nations, and then the end will come.”

Ivey is on the final year of his rookie contract, a four-year deal worth almost $33 million.

If he is not signed by another team within the league’s 48-hour window, the Bulls will have to pay the remainder of his contract, and he will become a free agent.

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