Police have arrested three people believed to be involved in the brutal beating to death of a homeless man found in a vacant home in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

The Klamath Falls Police Department said in a statement that officers found Kolton Esparza just before 11 a.m. on Feb. 26 while performing a welfare call.

‘I beat Kolton with a rock and stomped him out with my shoes.’

The homeless man was found naked, bound with rope, and beaten very badly. Police reported that he had signs of torture as well.

He was transported to a hospital, where he died a day later from his injuries.

After an investigation, police arrested two men and a woman for their involvement in his death.

Prosecutors say 49-year-old Jamie S. Harrington drove Esparza to the Eulalona Trailhead in Klamath Falls along with her brother, 34-year-old Reggie L. Townsend Jr., and a 39-year-old man named Wesley J. Powless, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Esparza was allegedly beaten by the men before he was able to run away, with them chasing after him.

Prosecutors say the men caught up to him near the vacant home and beat him with a brick or rock while kicking him. Powless and Townsend allegedly cleaned up the scene and left with evidence in a black garbage bag.

A medical examiner found that the man’s cause of death was “severe head trauma.”

Investigators claimed to have obtained a confession letter from Townsend to his girlfriend that read, “I beat Kolton with a rock and stomped him out with my shoes.”

KDRV-TV also reported that Townsend had been released only three months prior after serving a sentence for manslaughter.

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Harrington and her brother were arrested on Feb. 27, while Powless was arrested in a later traffic stop.

Powless and Townsend were charged with second-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and tampering with evidence. Harrington was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, tampering with evidence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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On the “Impaulsive” podcast, Logan Paul declared he would wager $1 million against any NFL player willing to face him in a boxing match — claiming that no player is capable of beating him.

“Not a single football player could beat me in a boxing match,” Paul said proudly, adding that he would “throttle Myles Garrett.”

“A million dollars. You come to the gym, we put on boxing gloves, we see how it goes,” he added.

“This started with, ‘I can beat any NFL player in a fight.’ Which is an outright lie. There are a bunch of guys in the National Football League right now that will whoop Logan Paul’s ass,” “Fearless” guest Shaun King tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock.

“Then he fixed it, though, when he came back around to it, and he specified it had to be boxing and inside the ring with gloves on. … That is a conditioning thing, and it’s a technique thing, and no matter how good you might be fighting on the street, if you aren’t learned in that specific line of combat, then you probably have no chance,” he continues.

“Probably in a boxing match, something that he’s been training at forever with gloves, three-minute rounds, he has a sizeable advantage. But don’t get it twisted, Logan. In a regular street fight, there are a whole bunch of NFL guys that’ll get on your top,” he adds.

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As President Donald Trump continues his push to secure the nation, a new NBC News survey reveals that American voters hold positions on enforcement of immigration laws that are at odds with the mainstream media narrative. The poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies, shows that when it comes to border security, voters prefer the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a staggering 27-point lead.

The American people have more faith in the agency protecting the border than in the party that has consistently undermined it.

The survey was conducted between Feb. 27 and March 3, 2026. It included interviews with 1,000 registered voters, with 620 respondents reached via cell phone and 309 interviewed through an online survey sent via text message. The results, which have a margin of error of ±3.10%, reveal a growing divide.

The poll also has shocking news for the Democratic Party. According to the survey, 38% of voters have a positive view of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. By comparison, only 30% of voters have a positive view of the Democratic Party. This eight-point gap suggests that despite radical “Abolish ICE” rhetoric from progressives, the American people have more faith in the agency protecting the border than in the party that has consistently undermined it.

In a post on X, Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley noted, “[The Democratic Party] barely edged out Iran in popularity. As Democrats push airports toward a shutdown during peak Spring break travel, they could soon lose not just to Iran but Ebola in future polls.”

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Republicans hold their largest issue-based advantage on the border, far outpacing the 22-point lead they hold on the issue of crime. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party trails significantly on these pressing security concerns.

While 50% of voters say they prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress, they are simultaneously backing the Trump administration’s firm stance on the U.S. border and immigration enforcement.

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After only 10 days of the military operation against Iran, President Donald Trump said that it is close to being complete.

The president made the comments to a reporter over a phone interview Monday as oil prices skyrocketed and the stock market took a dive.

‘They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute.’

“I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications. They’ve got no air force,” the president said to Weijia Jiang, a CBS reporter.

Jiang posted the comments on social media.

The president added that the operation was far ahead of an initial estimated time frame of four to five weeks.

He also addressed the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran had threatened to shut down and was the cause of the spike in oil prices. The president said he was considering “taking it over” and threatened Iran further.

“They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country,” he added.

The stock market recovered much of its losses, and oil markets dropped in value after the president’s comments were reported.

A Russian official also said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin shared proposals to end the war on Iran in a phone call with Trump.

The president said Saturday that Iran was looking to end its strikes against its neighbors.

“Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore,” he wrote. “This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East.”

RELATED: Iran promises to cease attacks on neighboring countries as Trump warns it will be ‘hit very hard’

Jiang also asked the president to comment on the news that the Iranian regime had chosen Mojtaba Khamenei to become the next supreme leader.

“I have no message for him. None whatsoever,” Trump said.

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New York Times opinion writer David French, a self-described evangelical conservative, has made a habit out of supporting radical leftists over those Republican officials who have time and again delivered meaningful results for the causes of life and liberty.

French announced in 2024, for example, that he was supporting then-candidate Kamala Harris over President Donald Trump “to save conservatism.”

‘French always saves his most demonic takes for Sunday morning columns.’

The former National Review writer’s rationale was that the GOP supposedly wouldn’t survive another Trump term but could be rebuilt as a “force for genuine good” in the event that Harris — an advocate for abortion, child sex-rejection procedures, and infringements on the Second Amendment — won.

Although his propaganda didn’t work in 2024, French clearly hasn’t given up on promoting radical leftists and is now promoting James Talarico, the Democrat state representative hoping to succeed Republican John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate.

French — who has not only embraced homosexual “marriage” but also non-Christian speech codes about gender — claimed in an editorial on Sunday that “Talarico shines” as “one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian, and by acting like a Christian he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that’s dominated American political life for 10 years.”

French proffered Talarico’s Senate primary victory speech, during which he criticized competition, as an example of the Democrat’s supposed Christianity in action, “right heart,” and loving ways.

“I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor. It’s been more than 10 years of this kind of politics,” said Talarico. “Politics as blood sport, politics as trolling and owning, politics as total war. It tears families apart. It ends friendships, and it leaves us all feeling terrible all the time.”

RELATED: Democrats swapped Crockett’s preening for Talarico’s pulpit — and it worked

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Though gushing about Talarico’s supposed Christian decency and compassionate public face, French neglected to mention any of the Democrat’s nastier remarks about those political opponents and fellow Christians with whom he fundamentally disagrees.

Talarico previously suggested, for example, that Trump is a “business cheat, a pathological liar, a serial adulterer, a twice-impeached insurrectionist, a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist,” many of whose supporters “have forgotten all about Jesus.”

Trump sued ABC News over host George Stephanopoulos’ false on-air assertion that the president had been found civilly liable for rape. Per the terms of the late 2024 settlement, ABC News ultimately agreed to pay $15 million toward Trump’s presidential library.

Despite the apparent narrowness of Talarico’s love and understanding, French — making no secret of his soft spot for Cornyn and hard liking for Talarico — presented the Democrat challenger as the supposedly virtuous antithesis of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

French’s case relies not only on selective outrage and his apparent ability to judge the hearts of men but on severing both candidates from their relevant activities, namely their work in office.

“For too long we’ve evaluated Christians in politics primarily through their policy positions,” wrote French. “Yet this is exactly backward.”

French expressed outrage over Paxton’s failed marriage and portrayed him as an exemplar of vice while strategically ignoring Talarico’s:

support for the dehumanization and elimination of the unborn, as signaled by his 0% score on the Texas Right to Life’s pro-life scorecard and his correlated recognition as “a Pro-Choice Champion” by the Texas Choice Tracker;attempted use of scripture, specifically Genesis 2:7 and the Annunciation, to justify the slaughter of the unborn;votes against sparing children from sex-rejection mutilations as well as against keeping men out of girls’ sports;claim that displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms is “deeply un-Christian”;claim that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling was effectively “un-Christian”;claim that God is “non-binary”;claim that there are six sexes, despite the clear assertion in Genesis, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”; complaint that “Republican politicians are banning drag queens in the name of protecting children”; andclaim that “you can’t call yourself a Christian and destroy God’s creation with greenhouse gases.”

Critics blasted French over his commentary, suggesting that his understanding of “decency” is confused if not outright deceptive.

Radio host Erick Erickson noted, “It is not decent to twist scripture to lead others to hell. It is not decent to claim whiteness itself is like a virus. It is not decent to use Christ’s conception as a justification for abortion. It is not decent to reduce women to ‘neighbors with uteruses.’ Only if you have been radicalized by your critics can you land at this position.”

‘Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.’

“David French is endorsing a guy who wants free abortion mills in every courthouse and who also claims God is trans,” wrote Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist. “That French always saves his most demonic takes for Sunday morning columns is a pretty good indicator of who he actually worships now.”

William Wolfe, executive director for the Center for Baptist Leadership, alluded to the conspiring demons in C.S Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters,” writing, “Now tell them that pro-abortion, pro-child mutilation politician who preaches that God is non-binary is a ‘shining’ example of a Christian. Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.”

Weeks prior to French’s opinion piece, BlazeTV host Steve Deace suggested that Talarico was an “object and a vessel of malevolence. All right? When he speaks, he’s not deceived; he’s the deceiver. … He is who Paul would have said in Acts, ‘You are a son of the devil.’ He knows what he is doing.”

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