A man from Georgia was arrested for allegedly making graphic threats against Kristi Noem, the former head of the Dept. of Homeland Security, and Pam Bondi, former U.S. Attorney General.

Elliott Owen Schroer of Toccoa made the threats on the X social media platform in early April, according to federal prosecutors.

Schroer was ordered to wear an electronic tracking device while out on bond and was banned from using any social media account.

Schroer allegedly said he would kill Bondi, but his threats to Noem were far more graphic:

“I will stab your eyes out with a dull knife.””I will blow your esophagus out the back of your neck with a 12 gauge slug.””We will put your head on a stake.”

The man was arraigned in federal court and released on a $10,000 bond.

Schroer was ordered to wear an electronic tracking device while out on bond and was banned from using any social media account.

He also cannot possess a firearm, drink alcohol, or contact either Bondi or Noem.

President Donald Trump fired Bondi in early April, and Noem was fired from DHS in March. The latter was named the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas by the president.

The allegations against Schroer are especially alarming as President Donald Trump was allegedly targeted for another assassination attempt during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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The White House was also briefly placed on lockdown after an armed man fired at Secret Service agents after they spotted him carrying a firearm at the National Mall.

Schroer is scheduled for a pretrial on May 29.

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Earlier this week, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales blasted a Muslim-only event for taking over a water park in Grand Prairie, Texas — and Governor Greg Abbott (R) swiftly threatened to pull funding from the city and shut it down.

What initially caught Gonzales’ eye was the event flyer, which said “Muslims only” twice. The flyer was later updated to say “modest dress only” once it became a topic of controversy.

“I want to just set the record straight, because I know there’s been a lot of confusion. You did have the ‘Muslims only’ on the original flyer, and then you changed it and updated it on the site to read ‘modest dress only,’ correct?” Gonzales asks the organizer of the event, Dr. Aminah Knight.

“Absolutely, absolutely,” Knight responds.

Knight explains that in years past, the flyer has only been circulated privately and never caused any issues until now.

“A few days ago, the New York Post contacted me, and they said, ‘Hey, did you know that your flyer in this event is going viral?’ And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’” Knight tells Gonzales.

“And then my husband also let me know, ‘Hey, there’s this guy who, he’s kind of historic for having Islamaphobic rhetoric, to be honest. He got ahold of the flyer, and he is saying, “Oh my gosh, the Muslims are doing this event. They’re trying to exclude people” and X, Y, and Z,'” she continues.

“And so I quickly changed the flyer,” she adds.

“It does read like you were trying to exclude non-Muslims, and I just wonder, you know, I know that you feel like you were wronged in this, but I just wonder if you feel like it would be fair for, say, a private group to rent out a publicly funded water park and put on, you know, their posters, ‘This is for whites only,’” Gonzales argues.

Knight responds that unlike white people, marginalized groups like the black and Muslim communities “oftentimes need to take a moment to gather, fortify each other and then go back out into the world.”

She also tells Gonzales that at the heart of the event are young Muslim girls, whom she wants to inspire to dress modestly in a society where the “standard of beauty that they see around them has to do with how sexy they are and how much of their skin they can show.”

“My question actually was how is this any different than … a whites-only, you know, KKK party at a publicly funded water park?” Gonzales says, pointing out that there are discrimination laws under which you cannot have private events that exclude people based on religion.

“So how do you think that that’s OK?” she asks.

“Muslims uphold a modest dress code, and we’re celebrating our EID events. … I didn’t think anything was wrong with that,” Knight responds, later telling Gonzales that she did not expect Gonzales to “be so aggressive.”

“By asking if it would be OK if we could do a whites-only event as well and how that was different?” Gonzales asks.

“It’s just your tone,” Knight says.

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An elderly man has died after the suspect in his killing — who was in police custody just hours earlier — shoved him down subway entrance steps in New York City on Thursday night, police told WCBS-TV.

The attack against the 76-year-old man occurred just before 9:30 p.m. in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood at West 18th Street and 7th Avenue, the station said.

‘Disgusting.’

Responding officers found Ross Falzone on the subway stairs with head injuries, WCBS said, adding that he was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition and later died.

The station said police believe they know who carried out the crime since the suspect was taken into custody earlier Thursday.

Police told WCBS that officers around 3:30 p.m. Thursday encountered the suspect behaving erratically outside the NYPD’s 17th Precinct.

The male was taken into custody, the station said, and officers brought him to Bellevue Hospital. WCBS said he was taken to the psychiatric emergency room for evaluation — and released an hour later.

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Surveillance video around 9:30 p.m. Thursday recorded Falzone approaching the subway — and the same male who had been taken into custody earlier in the day was seen walking quickly behind him and then shoving the elderly victim down the steps, police told WCBS.

Falzone struck his head about halfway down the steps, the station added.

Emergency responders were called, WCBS said, adding that Falzone was rushed to Bellevue Hospital but died just before 3 a.m. Friday.

Police are searching for the suspect, the station said, adding that the NYPD hasn’t released his name or description.

Observers commenting under the WCBS video report about the elderly man’s death are beyond done. Some examples:

“This is what you vote for in blue city NY,” one commenter said.”Disgusting,” another user stated.”There will be no justice,” another commenter lamented.”The powers that be do this because they’re not scared of being dragged out and held accountable,” another user declared.

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A Utah Supreme Court justice resigned from the court after being accused of a conflict of interest from a personal relationship with the former attorney for the League of Women Voters.

Justice Diana Hagen recused herself from all cases involving David Reymann in May 2025, but new suspicions were raised due to allegations from her ex-husband.

She claimed that she recused herself from cases involving Reymann after reconnecting.

Reymann had been the lead attorney arguing that Republican redistricting efforts in the state were illegal.

The complaint alleging Hagen had been biased in siding against redistricting was submitted to both Chief Justice Matthew Durrant and the Judicial Conduct Commission in Dec. 2025.

Hagen denied any wrongdoing.

“The insinuation that I was ethically compromised while carrying out my official duties is patently false,” she said in a previous statement.

She admitted that she reconnected with friends in the wake of her failed marriage in 2025, and one of those friends was Reymann. She claimed that she recused herself from cases involving Reymann after reconnecting.

The Utah Supreme Court dismissed the complaint after an investigation.

“As the sole entity authorized to investigate allegations of misconduct against a judge, the Judicial Conduct Commission received the allegations in their entirety and conducted an independent investigation,” the court said. “The Judicial Conduct Commission completed their investigation in accordance with their constitutional and statutory authority and dismissed the complaint against Justice Hagen.”

The court added that some related documents had been “inappropriately released to the public.”

RELATED: ‘Clear example of judicial activism’: Judge gives Democrats a boost with Utah congressional map in red state

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said that the state would announce the process to fill Hagen’s seat in the coming days.

Hagen was nominated to the highest Utah court by Gov. Cox in 2022.

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President Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine that involved a large prisoner exchange.

The president said in a post on the Truth Social platform that the ceasefire was made at his request and would last for three days beginning May 9.

‘Talks are continuing on ending this Major Conflict, the biggest since World War II, and we are getting closer and closer every day.’

“The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II,” Trump wrote.

“This request was made directly by me, and I very much appreciate its agreement by President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,” he continued.

The agreement includes a swap of 1,000 prisoners from each country.

The ceasefire will ensure that Russia’s annual commemoration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany in World War II can go forth without any threat from Ukraine. A Victory Day parade usually includes a procession of missiles, soldiers, and tanks, but it has been scaled back this year, possibly because of Russians’ frustration with war against Ukraine.

Zelenskyy thanked the president in a post on social media and said he expected the U.S. to “ensure” that Russia fulfilled its part of the agreement.

“Red Square is less important to us than the lives of Ukrainian prisoners who can be brought home,” Zelenskyy said.

Trump went on to express hope that the ceasefire might lead to a permanent end to the war.

“Talks are continuing on ending this Major Conflict, the biggest since World War II, and we are getting closer and closer every day,” he added.

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Zelenskyy previously announced a ceasefire, and Russia suggested a ceasefire. However, their dates did not match up.

While official estimates vary, some place the number of Russian casualties in the war at higher than 1.2 million, while Ukraine has suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties.

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According to many critics, former reality TV star and registered Republican Spencer Pratt spanked incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and democratic socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral debate on Wednesday night, with Fox News rating Pratt’s performance a “10/10 no notes.”

But even though Pratt delivered crisp answers, brought charismatic energy, exceeded expectations as a first-time debate performer, and has even outraised both Bass and Raman, Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman, BlazeTV hosts of “Rufo and Lomez,” aren’t sure it’s enough to bring him to victory.

But there is one faint hope that could push him over the edge.

“A reality television career, a media savvy campaign, an outsider political movement — can you actually bridge that gap and become … the mayor of Los Angeles?” Rufo asks skeptically.

He admits that the alternatives are bleak: “You have Karen Bass, the sitting mayor of L.A., who was a member of the Venceremos Brigade communist Cuban front group. … And then the third character is Nithya Raman … a hard-left democratic socialist in the vein of a Mamdani or a Saikat Chakrabarti, who ran the AOC campaign early on.”

Bass and Raman, Rufo explains, “are fighting over the actual power system in L.A. — who gets the union money, who gets the activist money, who gets the nonprofit money, who gets the public money, meaning who can dominate those institutions and ride them to power.”

Pratt’s “media-centric” campaign, albeit “savvy” and compelling, may not be enough to “overcome those institutions,” he says.

Co-host Jonathan Keeperman agrees: “It’s not even whether or not he runs a good campaign or whether this media strategy is effective or not. … It’s just a numbers game.”

He explains that the reality is that most of the people who will show up to vote in L.A.’s mayoral election are people who are “dependent on the state and city governance in some capacity for their livelihood.”

“They are working for the state probably and/or working for some kind of NGO that is itself working for the state, and so most of the voters here — and it’s largely going to be driven by union turnout — are dependent on precisely the institutions that someone like Karen Bass is promising to sort of keep intact and keep funding,” Keeperman predicts.

Pratt’s “only hope,” he says, is that enough “sideline” voters recognize that the horrific wildfires that destroyed thousands of acres and killed 31 people in January 2025 were due to “the failure of democratic governance.”

“I don’t mean to be a doomer here or sound too pessimistic, but no matter what Pratt does in terms of raising his profile at the national level and getting on social media … you’re just talking about a very narrow set of voters in the city of L.A., and they’re dependent on the city of L.A. government structure for their livelihood,” he says.

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