A 56-year-old male was caught on video allegedly luring a 6-year-old boy away from his Florida home in broad daylight with the promise of a toy, according to reports. But the alleged kidnapper reportedly received his comeuppance from the boy’s brother and cousin.

The Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement that Jose Reynaldo Martinez Reyes approached the boy around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Surveillance video obtained by WTVJ-TV shows the male playing soccer with the boy outside the boy’s home.

‘His older brother came in, pushed him and punched him just to get his brother back, put him in the car.’

Police said Martinez Reyes “lured” the boy away from the Northwest Miami residence on foot with the promise of purchasing him a toy.

“The guy came over to me and said, ‘Do you wanna come with me?’ And I said sure,” 6-year-old Jake Rivera told WTVJ.

The young boy had been playing soccer with his older brother in front of their home, but the 15-year-old brother went inside to use the bathroom. When the older brother returned and quickly realized the boy was missing, he immediately notified his adult cousin.

“I was sleeping and my cousin woke me up and said my little cousin was abducted by a man,” said Alfredo Velasquez, the boy’s cousin.

Police stated, “Upon noticing that the victim was missing, his brother and an adult family friend began frantically searching for him. The pair located the victim and subject over a mile away from the residence, walking along the roadway hand in hand.”

Velasquez said there was a physical confrontation with the alleged kidnapper.

“His older brother came in, pushed him and punched him just to get his brother back, put him in the car,” Velasquez told WTVJ.

The child was removed from the alleged kidnapper and placed in a waiting car. Police arrived at the scene to find a civilian detaining Martinez Reyes.

During their investigation, detectives determined Martinez Reyes had no familial ties to the boy. Martinez Reyes was arrested and hit with charges of kidnapping and interference with custody.

Police are urging anyone with any information regarding the suspect or incident to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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Many would say that Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes had a successful 2024 season. The team won nine games, ranked in the AP top 25, and made it to a bowl game. Star cornerback and wide receiver Travis Hunter even won the Heisman Trophy. Outwardly, it appears that the Buffs have a bright future.

Jason Whitlock, however, has a source — “someone who’s in the know,” he says — who claims that “the situation is ripe and right for Deion Sanders to exit Colorado after their 36-14 Alamo Bowl loss to BYU.”

According to Jason’s source, “Going into the Alamo Bowl, Colorado [was] out of NIL money” and was forced to “do everything on a strict budget.”

Apparently, “The players were frustrated” that their bowl game experience was subpar due to budget constraints, which is why the team “didn’t take the bowl game that seriously.”

Jason’s source also told him that “the Buffaloes spent two nights in a strip club that they basically rented out” on Christmas Day and the day after. This escapade, however, did not involve Travis Hunter, who does not go to clubs.

“Money wasn’t there, so their focus wasn’t there,” says Jason.

While his source predicts that a Deion exit is on the horizon, Jason isn’t so sure.

“I think Colorado is going to pony up,” he says. “They got some five-star quarterback; they got some other good recruits. It appears to me that Deion plans to stay.”

However, Deion has claimed that he got involved in coaching to develop his kids — Shedeur and Shilo — and now that both are graduating, perhaps Deion will consider his work finished.

On top of that, “Deion has positioned himself to be a candidate for an NFL job,” says Jason.

“If Deion bounces, [then his time at Colorado] was a disaster, and it was not worth it,” he adds.

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The newly elected commissioners of a rural Michigan county have already given their constituents a major win when they voted to rescind official support for the construction of a battery plant for a Chinese company.

On Thursday, four new commissioners — Greg Adams, Jeff Jackson, Gary Lambrix, and Chris Zimmerman — were sworn into office in Mecosta County, a county of fewer than 40,000 residents about an hour north of Grand Rapids. Their first order of business was to do what the people elected them to do: begin pushing back against plans to build a Gotion Inc. electric vehicle battery plant in Green Charter Township.

Immediately upon taking office, the new board of commissioners voted 5-2 to rescind Resolution 2023-04, which passed under the previous board and gave official support to the Gotion plant, the Midwesterner reported. Commissioners Chris Jane and Bill Routley were the two “no” votes.

“New information and developments have emerged concerning the project and its ownership structure with direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party CCP and broader issues of foreign investment,” said the newly adopted resolution, according to the Pioneer.

Gotion is headquartered in Silicon Valley, but its parent company, Gotion High Tech, is based in China. To advance the project in Green Charter, Gotion engaged in secret negotiations with Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other lawmakers and even allegedly bribed some previous members of the township board for their approval.

‘When 92% of the Mecosta County residents opposed the Chinese battery plant … commissioners should have listened.’

For years, voters in the area have been remarkably clear and consistent about their views on the Gotion facility: They don’t want it. Despite the promise of more than 2,300 new jobs, residents worry about potential communist infiltration and negative effects on the environment.

In fact, Green Charter residents opposed the idea so vehemently that they ousted all seven members of their township board in 2023, as Blaze News previously reported. Five of them were recalled at the ballot box. Two others resigned.

Adams, Jackson, Lambrix, and Zimmerman apparently took notice and ran for the county board of commissioners in 2024 on a platform of opposing Gotion.

Zimmerman, the new board chair, noted in his remarks Thursday that local leaders have been ignoring the opinions of their constituents for far too long.

“When 92% of the Mecosta County residents opposed the Chinese battery plant in our community, the board of commissioners should have listened,” he said.

“All four of us opposed Gotion,” Zimmerman continued, referring to himself as well as Adams, Jackson, and Lambrix, “and we hope the passage of this resolution will help heal the divide in our community. Moreover, as long as the four of us are on the commission, we will no longer ignore the will of the people.”

Zimmerman also acknowledged the risks of allowing a Chinese company to put down roots in Mecosta County. “When our congressman [John Moolenaar] says there are security concerns with China in our community, the board of commissioners should have reversed their approval of the project,” he said.

President-elect Donald Trump gave a similar warning about Gotion back in August. “The Gotion plant would be very bad for the State and our Country. It would put Michiganders under the thumb of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. I AM 100% OPPOSED!” he posted to social media.

While the Mecosta County board of commissioners has now made its opposition to the Gotion plant known, the practical implications of the vote to rescind the resolution are unclear since the project is currently tied up in litigation.

Gotion did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed a law in June that eliminated the basic skills test requirements for aspiring teachers.

The law, Act 1669, cleared the state Senate in a 34-2 vote as part of the state’s 2025 budget and went into effect on January 1, 2025.

‘Teachers unions don’t want teachers to demonstrate basic competency.’

The legislation states, “The State Board of Education shall not require a candidate seeking any instructional certificate, except in the case of a limited certificate of eligibility or a limited certificate of eligibility with advanced standing … to complete a Commissioner of Education-approved test of basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills including, but not limited to, the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators test, in order to obtain an instructional certificate.”

Democratic lawmakers argued that removing barriers to obtaining teaching certificates would be the best way to address the state’s teacher shortage.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Jim Beach (D), stated, “We need more teachers. This is the best way to get them.”

While the basic skills test is no longer required, some certification tests remain in place for specific subject areas, according to the New Jersey Monitor. For example, aspiring mathematics teachers must pass a Praxis subject matter exam, and aspiring biology teachers must complete both general science and biology subject matter tests.

The New Jersey Education Association, a teachers’ union representing roughly 200,000 active and retired education professionals, led the effort to eliminate the basic skills test and several other initiatives to reduce certification requirements for aspiring teachers.

The NJEA has called the basic skills test “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.” It claimed that the “one-off standardized test” could not “effectively measure the knowledge or skills needed to be a great teacher.”

Nicki Neily, the founder and president of Parents Defending Education, reacted to the elimination of the basic skills test.

“New Jersey teachers will no longer be required to pass a basic skills test to become a teacher. The New Jersey Education Association was the driving force behind the bill. Teachers unions don’t want teachers to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing, and math before going into the classroom,” Neily stated.

In 2023, Murphy signed a similar law, Bill S1553, which formed an alternative pathway for certification that circumvented the basic skills test.

Murphy also previously signed legislation removing the Education Teacher Performance Assessment as a requirement for aspiring teachers. He claimed the move would “streamline a process that has previously acted as a barrier.”

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Democrats and their allies in the press have worked feverishly in recent years to neutralize conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on the U.S. Supreme Court. Owing to the justices’ resilience and the toothless nature of Democrats’ attacks, these efforts have all been in vain — including the attempt by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) to have Thomas referred to the Department of Justice for imagined violations of the Ethics in Government Act 1978, which was thwarted Thursday by the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Thomas and his relatives reportedly sold an old single-story home and two vacant lots in Savannah, Georgia, at market rate to one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies in 2014. Crow, who has been Thomas’ family friend for over two decades, said in a statement that his intention was to “one day create a public museum at the Thomas home dedicated to telling the story of our nation’s second black Supreme Court Justice, who was born in Pin Point, Georgia and later raised in Savannah.”

ProPublica — an investigative journalist outfit that has received donations from Laurene Powell Jobs and her leftist Emerson Collective, from George Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society, and from Crankstart Foundation, Lincoln Project donor Michael Moritz’s family foundation — published a report on April 13, 2023, suggesting that Thomas failed to disclose his family’s sale of the property and may have violated a federal disclosure law in the process.

‘Potential violations of disclosure laws by officers of the highest court merit serious investigation.’

ProPublica also made a fuss about the justice’s inadvertent failure to note in financial filings that Crow provided him with food and lodging in 2019 at both an Indonesian hotel and at a private club that year in California. Thomas later noted these in his financial disclosure report for 2023.

Just as Democratic lawmakers would later use the New York Times strategic reports about flags to attack Justice Alito, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Hank Johnson were quick to weaponize the ProPublica report, penning a letter to the Judicial Conference on April 14, 2023, requesting that it refer Thomas to Attorney General Merrick Garland for investigation.

The Democrats suggested that there was “reasonable cause to believe that Justice Thomas willfully failed to file information required to be reported under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.”

“Justice Thomas’s failure to report this transaction is part of an apparent pattern of noncompliance with disclosure requirements,” said the letter. “Potential violations of disclosure laws by officers of the highest court merit serious investigation, and it is well past time for the Supreme Court to align with the rest of the government on ethics requirements.”

Coinciding with Whitehouse and Johnson’s publication of their letter, the New York Times editorial board ran a condemnatory piece echoing both the scandal-plagued leftist group Fix the Court in calling the Supreme Court “the least accountable part of our government” and Democratic lawmakers in calling for the establishment of an ethics office at the high court.

The Democratic lawmakers received a reply this week after 20 months of waiting. Apparently unmoved by the the letter and the editorial in the Times, Judicial Conference secretary Robert Conrad Jr., an Article III federal judge with senior status on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, effectively told Whitehouse and Johnson that theirs is a nonissue and to pound sand.

Conrad noted in his Thursday letter that the judiciary’s financial disclosure requirements have been in flux over the past few years.

For instance, in early 2023, the Financial Disclosure Committee issued guidance that the personal hospitality gift reporting exemption applies only to food, lodging, or entertainment — such as what was received by Thomas from Crow in 2019. As for disclosures regarding gifts of transportation, Conrad noted that the committee issued guidance in March 2023 precluding the need for retroactive application past 2022.

‘The provision in fact contains a suggestion to the contrary.’

Conrad pointed out that Thomas “has filed amended financial disclosure statements that address several issues identified in your letter. In addition, he has agreed to follow the relevant guidance issued to other federal judges, which would include the guidance mentioned above. We have no reason to believe he has done anything less.”

The secretary also indicated that it was not altogether clear whether the Judicial Conference’s referral authority applies to justices of the Supreme Court, stating that “there is reason to doubt that the Conference has any such authority.”

“Because the Judicial Conference does not superintend the Supreme Court and because any effort to grant the Conference such authority would raise serious constitutional questions, one would expect Congress at a minimum to state any such directive clearly,” wrote Conrad. “But no such express directive appears in this provision. The provision in fact contains a suggestion to the contrary.”

Conrad indicated not only that the Democrats’ request might be legally unworkable but that it was moot on account of the lawmakers’ direct appeal to Garland on July 3 to have a special counsel investigate these matters.

In a separate letter, the Judicial Conference shut down a similar request from the Center for Renewing America to refer Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the DOJ for failing to “disclose required information regarding her husband’s medical malpractice consulting income for over a decade.” Conrad noted that Jackson has amended her disclosure to include the previously omitted income from her husband.

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A Massachusetts court released an illegal alien accused of heinous crimes despite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer request.

Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla, a 46-year-old Dominican national, was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in January 2023 after he unlawfully entered the country in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to ICE.

‘Massachusetts leaders are going above and beyond to protect some of the most violent predators.’

ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations enrolled him in its Alternatives to Detention program, which allowed him to be released into the U.S. on his own recognizance while he awaited removal proceedings. However, ERO terminated him from the program a month later.

In July 2024, the Dorchester District Court arraigned Pena-Casilla for “assault to rape, kidnapping, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older, and intimidating a witness/juror/police/court official,” ICE reported.

ICE subsequently issued a detainer against Pena-Casilla, requesting that he remain held in the Nashua Street Jail for up to 48 hours to allow immigration officials time to transfer him to federal custody.

Pena-Casilla was released on bail with a GPS tracker the day after the detainer request was sent.

The Dorchester District Court dismissed the charges against Pena-Casilla after the Suffolk County Superior Court indicted him in September on the same lengthy list of alleged offenses.

Despite the ignoring of ICE’s detainer request, federal agents successfully apprehended Pena-Casilla in Boston on December 17. He remains in federal custody.

Acting field office Director Patricia Hyde of ERO Boston stated, “Emilio Jose Pena-Casilla stands accused of some very serious offenses against a Massachusetts resident.”

“We hold a sacred duty to protect the residents of our communities, and we will continue to do so by apprehending and removing egregious noncitizen offenders from our neighborhoods. Today, another victim in Massachusetts no longer needs to fear their predator,” Hyde said.

ICE’s announcement of the arrest comes after Governor Maura Healey (D) insisted that Massachusetts is “not a sanctuary state.“

Sanctuary jurisdictions are typically defined as municipalities or states where local law enforcement officials ignore ICE detainer requests or refuse to cooperate with federal immigration agents.

“Detainers are critical public safety tools because they focus enforcement resources on removable noncitizens who have been arrested for criminal activity. Detainers increase the safety of all parties involved — ERO personnel, law enforcement officials, the removable noncitizens, and the public — by allowing an arrest to be made in a secure and controlled custodial setting as opposed to at large within the community,” ICE stated.

Healey previously pledged to defy President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, claiming she would “absolutely not” allow Massachusetts state police to cooperate with the incoming president’s efforts to remove illegal aliens. She went so far as to say she would use “every tool in the toolbox” to “protect” illegal immigrants residing in the right-to-shelter state.

However, in late December, Healey appeared to backpedal, stating that she supports deporting illegal aliens who have committed crimes in the U.S. She said that local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies should coordinate to remove such threats from the community.

“I think what we need to do is work together here in Massachusetts to do both things: investigate, hold accountable, deport as necessary folks who are here unlawfully, who’ve engaged in criminal activity, absolutely, and also stand up for and protect the people who have been working here, going to school here, raising kids here, to ensure that they are not scared to go to the doctors or drop their kids off [at] school or go to work,” Healey stated.

Paul Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance told Blaze News, “Massachusetts leaders are going above and beyond to protect some of the most violent predators, at the expense of their own constituents.”

“They do this to make a political statement, which is to the detriment of their own state,” he continued. “These leaders don’t want you to believe your own eyes, but you should. No one in power should be allowed to stay a day longer in their position after defending these types of dangerous predators.”

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A CNN panel on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip” went a little off the rails after attorney Arthur Aidala noted that President-elect Donald Trump was targeted by Democrats at local and federal levels while he was running for president.

After playing a clip of a recent interview of Trump by NBC News, in which he said his attorney would have to look at whether charges should be brought up against people like former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), anti-Trump commentator and former Democratic Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh said the soon-to-be president is making disturbing threats.

Cheney was given the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Joe Biden.

“You can laugh at that. And you can say he’s an idiot. That’s the president-elect making another direct threat. This is unprecedented. It’s wrong. We should all agree it’s wrong that he says something like that. But yes, Joe Biden should try to pardon as many people as possible to protect from a guy who said, ‘I want to be an authoritarian,'” Walsh said.

“I know, but, Congressman, his — the Democratic administration just went after Trump and his whole family. His whole family,” Aidala said, prompting the whole table to reply, “Whoa, whoa.”

“Hang on. What do you mean, the Democratic administration? What are you talking about?” host Abby Phillip asked. One of the panelists then remarked that she wished a Democratic administration had truly gone after Trump.

“Last I looked, Joe Biden is a Democrat. Last I looked, the attorney general, Merrick Garland, is a Democrat. They hired a special prosecutor who went after [Trump] in several jurisdictions. The Democratic Manhattan DA went after him. The Democratic attorney general of the state of New York went after him,” Aidala explained.

Phillip asserted that none of the examples Aidala provided “mean what you said at the beginning.”

Aidala pointed out that Trump’s family had to testify for different legal and congressional proceedings, to which the panel still said Aidala was wrong in his initial statement.

Cheney was given the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Joe Biden on Thursday for her role in the special House committee that publicized an account of the riot at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. As she was given the award, it was announced that she had put “the American people over party,” to a standing ovation from the audience, according to The Hill.

Cheney’s conduct during the special committee has come into question after it was revealed that she had communicated with witness Cassidy Hutchinson, who went on to make outlandish claims, with the knowledge of Hutchinson’s attorney.

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With just a few days left in office, the lame-duck district attorney in Portland, Oregon, has pushed for a judge to reduce the sentences of several violent offenders, including a man involved in the murder and sexual assault of an elderly woman.

Mike Schmidt has been the district attorney of Multnomah County, Oregon, for more than four years. During that time, he has taken a far-left approach to law enforcement, working “to make the criminal legal system more equitable,” according to his official bio.

‘The sentence that he received at the time, a lot of people would have believed was too light.’

It seems that “equitable,” soft-on-crime approach did not sit well with voters, who went with challenger Nathan Vasquez, a former Republican who ran as an independent, instead of Schmidt in November.

With Vasquez poised to take over his job on January 6, Schmidt has made one last push for reducing the sentences of eight criminals under Senate Bill 819.

Among the offenders whom Schmidt hopes to help is Frank Swopes Jr., 62, who was convicted of felony murder in the death of 75-year-old Jean Stevenson in December 1993.

The details of the case are gruesome. Swopes and an accomplice broke into Stevenson’s home, tied the terrified woman to her bed, stole her wedding ring, and proceeded to sexually assault her, KATU reported. Stevenson later died of asphyxiation after Swopes’ accomplice pushed her to the floor, the New York Post said.

Thus far, Swopes has served 32 years of his 35-year sentence, but Schmidt hopes that he will be released early. The prosecutor in the case, former Deputy District Attorney Jim McIntyre, called the attempt to reduce Swopes’ sentence “unconscionable.”

“The sentence that he received at the time, a lot of people would have believed was too light,” McIntyre said, according to KATU. “And he’s going to have three more years to serve, and that’s exactly what he should serve.”

Another convict on Schmidt’s list is Shane Ebberts, who pled guilty to first- and second-degree assault in connection with an attack on a college student in 1995. Ebberts was 17 at the time.

Ebberts has already served his sentence of seven and a half years, but Schmidt wants to give him the opportunity to withdraw his guilty plea and instead plead guilty to second-degree attempted assault, the Post said.

Evan Gardner, one of Ebberts’ victims, is incensed about the move to expunge the first- and second-degree assault convictions from Ebberts’ record in favor of the lesser charge.

“As a group, they inflicted irreparable harm that will stay with both of us and our families and our extended families forever,” Gardner said, according to the Post. “It shattered my feeling of safety.”

‘This is the same work we’ve been doing throughout my term.’

DA-elect Vasquez further argued before Multnomah County Judge Melvin Oden-Orr that many of the victims in the cases Schmidt put forward have not been contacted as required by law.

“It just has all the appearance of being a very last-minute giveaway,” Vasquez said.

“They’re extremely violent individuals who have committed horrible crimes, and they’re being given some kind of a break.”

Between concerns about victim notification and the offenders themselves, Judge Oden-Orr elected to postpone a decision about resentencing most of them until February 13.

In response to the judge’s decision, Schmidt indicated that calling for leniency for violent criminals is just part of his job.

“Today, the court held hearings in several SB 819 cases and agreed that charges could be changed or dismissed to allow people to move on with their lives with clean records in recognition that they had turned their lives around,” Schmidt said in a statement, according to KGW. “I hope that the court will thoughtfully consider and grant the petitions.”

Schmidt’s statement did not offer any evidence that the offenders had, indeed, “turned their lives around,” though Schmidt noted in a separate statement that “each of these petitions have been considered in a thorough process over a number of months” that includes the input of a community advisory board.

“This is the same work we’ve been doing throughout my term.”

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ESPN analyst and podcast host Stephen A. Smith said debates surrounding H-1B visas within the Republican Party are healthy and are the type of conversations that have been silenced by Democrats.

On a New Year’s Eve episode of “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” the longtime sports broadcaster said policy debate is essential, but Democrats have refused to allow such disagreements.

“At least in the Trump administration, there appears to be a debate allowed. What has ailed the Democrats? It’s not an ideology alone. It’s not their feelings alone,” Smith began. “It’s the fact that if you refute it, what they said, if you are part of their party, cancel culture kicked in. If you were not a part of their party, it was ostracism, and it was ultimately hate-mongering and fearmongering that was thrown into the equation. There was no room for debate, and enough voices weren’t being heard,” Smith yelled.

The broadcaster then stated that despite there being diversity of people among Democrats, a diverse set of opinions didn’t matter to the party.

“Diversity amongst those voices not being heard. You’re black, you’re white, you’re gay, you’re lesbian, you’re heterosexual, you’re transgender. It don’t matter. You still have to have one form of thinking if you fell under their umbrella, otherwise you were pushed out,” Smith continued.

— (@)

‘You must obey the party line, or you’re out on your ass.’

Smith said he agreed with X owner Elon Musk’s position that the United States should bring in the “top ~0.1% of engineering talent” to keep the country “winning.”

However, Smith added that even if he didn’t agree with the position, he felt there should be an “open, robust debate about it,” because that is “not something that the Democrats allowed.”

“The Democrats stopped letting people decide,” he remarked, referring to the Democratic Party’s lack of primary ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

“One could easily argue their mentality seems to be, you must obey the party line, or you’re out on your ass. That seemed to be what they were saying, censorship, cancer culture. There was no debate. That’s why they’re home and Donald Trump is on his way back to the White House.”

Defending the idea of “America first” and favoring “people born in this country” is a discussion worth having Smith explained, claiming intense debate strengthens the party and sharpens the argument.

“I just think these kind of discussions are good for the country, and wish I saw more of it on the left,” he concluded.

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A 24-year-old female is accused of fatally stabbing an on-duty United States postal worker in a Harlem deli on Thursday afternoon, WABC-TV reported. New York City police said the pair seemingly argued over who ordered first before the dispute turned physical.

Jaia Cruz of Harlem was charged with second-degree murder, police told WPIX-TV.

‘She’s a nice young lady. She is not the type that just come out in the street and attacking people.’

Ray Hodges, 36, of the Bronx, was working his postal route when he went to get lunch at Joe’s Grocery at 168 Lenox Ave. around 2:30 p.m., police told WPIX.

As he was waiting to pay, an argument ensued over who was next in line, police told WPIX, adding that Cruz is accused of stabbing Hodges seven times.

WABC said police found Hodges stabbed or slashed multiple times — including in the torso, arms, back, and neck — inside the establishment.

Hodges was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, WABC said, adding that a weapon has been recovered.

Investigators told WPIX a witness identified the suspect near the scene of the crime.

The New York Post, citing sources, said “the knife-wielding suspect went crazy and gutted the victim in the stomach after he stepped in front of her in line, leaving his blood smeared all over the floors and glass door.”

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service told WPIX in a separate story that Hodges was a letter carrier and was on duty. WPIX said his postal cart was seen outside the deli.

A friend of the person of interest told WABC that it’s not in her friend’s character to attack another person without a reason and that she wouldn’t have hurt someone unless provoked.

“She’s a nice young lady,” the friend told WABC. “She is not the type that just come out in the street and attacking people. This is just a bad neighborhood. What had happened, I have no idea because I was not around yet. I don’t know. But I do know if she said it was in self defense, it was in self defense.”

Postal worker Kathy Singleton told WABC that Hodges “was a nice young man.”

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Remember when the media and White House officials gaslit and shamed us for questioning President Biden’s cognitive state? Remember when they claimed that the videos of Biden stumbling over his words and misspeaking were deep fakes?

Well, according to undercover reporting, certain key members of the Biden administration were fully aware of his cognitive decline well before it became evident to the public, and yet they continued to portray a false narrative of stability and competence.

Pat Gray plays an Instagram reel recently posted by O’Keefe Media Group that exposes Henry Appel, a National Security adviser in the Biden administration, spilling the tea on an undercover camera.

“Well, here’s some tea. Joe Biden is, like, dead. Not literally. Like, he, like, can’t say a sentence. He’s, like, really, like progressed in his old age. Everybody recognizes it. I can’t believe it wasn’t a bigger scandal earlier,” Appel said. “He’ll be dead in a year.”

Appel then went on to describe a time when Biden, who was at the time traveling overseas, called his office asking for NSC adviser Jake Sullivan. Appel had to explain to the president that Sullivan was traveling on the same trip with Biden.

Appel’s admission highlights the deep disregard for transparency and accountability at the highest levels of government.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared a state of emergency over the bird flu — and his “solution” is to give government agencies more money.

Newsom has passed a proclamation that ensures that government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to the outbreak.

“Bill Gates warned us, and he strangely knows when these things are happening,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells Liz Wheeler, noting that a Louisiana farmer has been hospitalized with respiratory illness related to the H5N1 infection.

The CDC believes the patient was likely exposed to the virus from a backyard flock, which could be the first time such a flock has been associated with the bird flu infection.

“We don’t know who gave the farmer the flu, but Gavin Newsom is about to spring into action,” Glenn says.

Wheeler, who lived in California when COVID-19 struck, finds the situation all too familiar.

“I’m a survivor,” Wheeler tells Glenn. “We weren’t allowed to go outside. I was sitting in a park on a hillside by my house — and when I say ‘park,’ I mean a grassy hill, not a playground — and a police officer on an ATV comes up to me and goes, ‘Ma’am, this park is closed.’ And I was like, ‘I’m just sitting here, there’s nobody else around,’ and he’s like, ‘Well, social distancing rules from Gavin.’”

Wheeler couldn’t help but let the officer know he was the only one violating the social distancing rules.

“I pointed that out to him, but he didn’t think it was amusing, as amusing as I did,” Wheeler laughs. “Although, I couldn’t really see because he had a mask on.”

“Gavin Newsom is the Justin Trudeau of America,” Glenn responds, adding, “The guy is a wannabe dictator.”

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