A shooter clad in black gunned down school children during a back-to-school Mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the pews. Another two victims are in critical condition. Of the 17 injured in the attack, 14 were children.

According to police, the shooter apparently barricaded the doors from the outside and began opening fire into the church through the windows.

The coward responsible, who has not yet been identified, used a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol, and ultimately committed suicide at the back of the church.

The day before the church attack, seven individuals were shot, one mortally, behind Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. One witness described the scene to KSTP-TV as a “blood shower.”

While these evil acts are particularly egregious, Minneapolis has seen a great deal of violence and bloodletting in recent months and years. While murders are down this year, assault offenses exceed those committed last year and are significantly higher than the previous three-year average. According to Neighborhood Scout, the city ranks 1 on the crime index, where 100 is safest.

‘This cruelty must end.’

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s recent criticism of the Trump administration’s efforts to restore law and order to Democrat-run cities has aged especially poorly in light of the recent mass shootings and the city’s general problems with violent crime.

In addition to defending DEI and championing Minnesota as a sanctuary for trans-identifying individuals in his Monday speech at the Democratic National Committee summer 2025 meeting in Minneapolis, Walz characterized the Trump administration’s efforts to curb crime with the help of the National Guard as cruel, “fascist,” unconstitutional, and as a “flaunting [sic] of the rule of law.”

The Democratic governor insinuated further that Trump was following the “law of the jungle” contra the “law of human decency,” and stated, “This cruelty must end.”

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) told the Guardian that if the president tried to repeat in Minneapolis the successful crime-reduction efforts undertaken in Washington, D.C., “It would be just a blatantly illegal usurpation of local control.”

“Of course, we would take immediate action to get injunctive relief,” Frey added.

While Democrats are resistive to the intervention by the Trump administration, the president’s crime-fighting initiative in Washington, D.C., has so far been a resounding success. Following the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and the deployment of the National Guard, there were no murders for at least 10 days.

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YouTube used artificial intelligence on videos without user knowledge and was caught when an array of creators called the company out.

The use of AI was brought to light by creators like Rhett Shull and Rick Beato, who have about 6 million YouTube subscribers between them. Beato, who makes up over 5 million of those, sent two of his own short-form YouTube videos (shorts) to Shull, asking him if he could spot the differences.

While they were supposed to be the same, one video had clearly been edited with AI.

‘I’m a tech nerd and I try to be precise about the terminology I use.’

“I was like ‘man, my hair looks strange,” Beato told the BBC. “And the closer I looked, it almost seemed like I was wearing makeup.”

The outlet reported, in conjunction with creator testimony, that YouTube has been secretly using AI to tweak videos without creators’ knowledge or permission. This has given videos some of the telltale signs of an AI video: overly defined facial features, blurry lettering, and an overall unnatural look to human skin and hair.

Shull referred to a Reddit thread that seemed to prove his theory, where a creator’s short was enhanced from 240p resolution to 1080p in a span of 12 hours — seemingly on its own — revealing significant changes to resolution and clarity.

After another report surfaced on X and garnered over 1 million views, a YouTube representative finally responded.

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“is this true? YouTube upscaling our shorts?” a streamer asked a YouTube rep.

Rene Ritchie, YouTube’s head of editorial and creator liaison, responded carefully.

“No GenAI, no upscaling,” Ritchie claimed. “We’re running an experiment on select YouTube Shorts that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity in videos during processing (similar to what a modern smartphone does when you record a video). YouTube is always working on ways to provide the best video quality and experience possible, and will continue to take creator and viewer feedback into consideration as we iterate and improve on these features.”

When the same streamer criticized Ritchie’s rejection of the use of AI as “corporate talk,” the YouTube liaison responded again.

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“I’m a tech nerd and I try to be precise about the terminology I use,” Ritchie stated. “GenAI typically refers to technologies like transformers and large language models, which are relatively new. Upscaling typically refers to taking one resolution (like SD/480p) and making it look good at a higher resolution (like HD/1080p). This isn’t using GenAI or doing any upscaling. It’s using the kind of machine learning you experience with computational photography on smartphones, for example, and it’s not changing the resolution.”

The streamer, Deano Sauruz, was not buying the excuse.

“It’s still AI,” he wrote. “I couldn’t care less about the ‘technical’ differences. It’s dishonest (IMO) and I don’t want my content being used for this machine learning that will evidently be used by YouTube to make money off mine, and others, content for its financial benefit.”

YouTube did not respond to the BBC’s report on the subject.

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AI smoothing or enhancement has been a hot topic in recent months, especially when it comes to big brands.

Actor Will Smith was accused of faking his concert crowds, also in a YouTube short. However, analysis was able to pin down the likely issue was that Smith’s team was allegedly taking still images and using AI to turn them into short videos. This caused blurred faces, incorrect spelling on signs, and exaggerated features.

A TikTok video by Scott Hanselman pointed to similar issues with the TV show “A Different World” when it aired on Netflix.

The show, which ran from 1987 to 1993, was not filmed in high definition but is available in 4K resolution on Netflix. Hanselman pointed out inconsistent faces, jumbled background images, and words that were so “upscaled” that they became like “hieroglyphics.”

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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted by a federal grand jury in May on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of the law.

Dugan, relieved of her duties as a judge in April by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, allegedly helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz — an illegal alien from Mexico charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery — get away from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the alien’s pre-trial April 18 appearance in her courtroom.

Dugan has since fought desperately to avoid accountability for her alleged crimes, which were apparently caught on courtroom cameras and could land her up to six years in prison.

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On Tuesday, the Clinton-appointed U.S. district judge presiding over Dugan’s case delivered her some bad news about her charges: She can’t shirk them despite her attorneys’ best attempt to have them dismissed.

Citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States, lawyers for the Milwaukee judge claimed in a May 14 motion to dismiss the case that as a judge, Dugan is immune from criminal prosecution for judicial acts, that her prosecution violates the limits of federal power under the 10th Amendment, and that her indictment should be dismissed under the canon of constitutional avoidance.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph, the federal judge handling pre-trial proceeding in the case, blew up Dugan’s arguments for dismissal last month and recommended that her motion to dismiss be denied.

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“It is well-established and undisputed that judges have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits for monetary damages when engaging in judicial acts,” wrote Joseph. “This, however, is not a civil case. And review of the case law does not show an extension of this established doctrine to the criminal context.”

Joseph noted further, “Does judicial immunity shield Dugan from prosecution because the indictment alleges she violated federal criminal law while performing judicial duties? The answer is no.”

In addition to underscoring that there is “no firmly established absolute judicial immunity barring criminal prosecution of judges for judicial acts,” Joseph clarified that the Supreme Court ruling in Trump “says nothing about criminal immunity for judicial acts.”

The decision on whether to uphold Joseph’s recommendation ultimately rested with U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, a former Democratic state senator with a history of attacking President Donald Trump.

‘A review of the relevant history reveals the government has the better of the argument.’

Although on paper, it would appear the district judge might offer Dugan a sympathetic ear, Adelman ultimately embraced Joseph’s recommendation and similarly dismantled Dugan’s arguments for dismissal one by one.

Regarding Dugan’s effort to use the Trump ruling as her ticket out of trouble, Adelman wrote in his Tuesday order, “There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered ‘part of a judge’s job.'”

“A review of the relevant history reveals the government has the better of the argument,” wrote Adelman.

The district judge also rejected Dugan’s claim that the federal prosecution violates the 10th Amendment, stressing that the indictment of a state judge neither results in the usurpation of Wisconsin’s power to select, discipline, and remove its own judges, or the state’s sovereignty.

Adelman similarly rejected Dugan’s third main argument for dismissal, noting that “the canon of constitutional avoidance comes into play only when, after the application of ordinary textual analysis, a statute is found to be susceptible of more than one construction.”

There is, however, no ambiguity with respect to the terms Dugan singled out in her motion to dismiss, namely the words “corruptly” and “proceeding” used in count two of her federal indictment, suggested Adelman.

The district judge denied Dugan’s motion to dismiss, then scheduled an in-court hearing for Sept. 3.

Attorneys for Dugan said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press that they were disappointed with the decision but “look forward to the trial, which will show Judge Dugan did nothing wrong and simply treated this case like any other in front of her courtroom.”

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On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz reacts to President Trump’s executive order on burning the American flag. What does the order actually say? Plus, the Heartland Institute’s Justin T. Haskins joins the show to discuss a Washington state law that could destroy the seal of the confessional.

President Trump signed an executive order this week titled, Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag — and it wasn’t just the left who reacted in anger.

“The fiery response to President Trump’s executive order is coming from President Trump’s base, who are all ablaze about this,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says on “The Liz Wheeler Show,” adding, “Now, you’re going to be surprised by what I think about this topic.”

“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. And we in the United States are not living in ordinary times. We are facing a deliberate concerted assault on everything from the very legitimacy of our country to our rule of law to our constitutionally protected rights and the other side, our political opposition, has been tragically very successful in waging these attacks against us,” she explains.

And Wheeler notes that other symbols are protected by law.

“In Washington, D.C., when those teenagers on their bikes made those burnouts on top of the trans flag that was painted on the roads, they faced a potential 10 years in prison for defacing the trans flag,” Wheeler says.

“Why should the left’s sacred symbols, the trans flag, be protected, but our sacred symbols, the American flag, not?” she asks. “That doesn’t seem like equality under the law, that seems like a double standard where their religious symbols are protected and ours aren’t.”

While others on the right who disagree will use the slippery slope argument, Wheeler notes that the left has already done the same thing to the right when they were in power.

“This is not some hypothetical possibility that might happen down the road that we have to protect against. The left has already called your speech violent in memos behind the scenes at the FBI. If you’re a parent that opposed critical race theory or trans ideology in a public school, if you’re a pro-lifer, if you’re a Catholic, they’ve labeled you a violent extremist, a domestic terrorist,” she explains.

“They’ve already taken our speech and told us that it’s violence. And prosecuted us for it,” she continues, adding, “So the slippery slope argument might sound good on paper. It may be convincing. You may feel sympathetic to it on paper, but in reality, that’s long past relevant.”

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America is sleepwalking into disaster. The rush to renewables, pitched by many progressives as patriotism in action, is in fact tying America to its greatest rival.

The story is sold in sunny ads about cheaper power bills and endless solar arrays glistening on rooftops. The truth is much darker. Behind those panels, behind the inverters that hum quietly in basements and back yards, stands the Chinese Communist Party.

For Beijing, solar was never about saving the planet. It was about power. Billions in subsidies turned factories into arsenals, entire cities redesigned to churn out polysilicon wafers and panels at a scale the West could never rival. Today, the result is plain. Four out of five solar panels in the world are built in China. Even when an American installer stamps “Made in the USA” on a box, the guts are usually Chinese. The supply chain runs through Xinjiang, through state-backed giants, through companies that move at the command of the CCP.

Beijing learned from the Huawei fight: infrastructure, not handhelds, is where real leverage lies.

The panels alone are only part of the story. The real danger lies in the hardware that makes them run. Inverters convert solar energy into usable power, but they also connect to the internet. That connection is sold as a feature: easy monitoring, remote diagnostics, seamless integration with smart homes.

Yet in practice, it is a back door. Investigators have uncovered hidden cellular radios, unexplained communication gear, and unexplored code in some Chinese-made units. If you were designing a system to surveil and, in the worst case, sabotage America’s grid, this is what you would build. Not just panels on rooftops, but an invisible nervous system running through the veins of American infrastructure. A lattice of cheap hardware, each piece quietly phoning home, each update carrying the potential to flip from clean energy to controlled chaos.

Washington already knows the risk. Huawei was banned from U.S. telecom networks years ago. Its name became shorthand for Beijing’s ambition to burrow into the very organs that keep the West alive. But banning Huawei in phones and towers didn’t end the threat. In this ever-evolving game, you smash one head and another 17 appear. What once came packaged as 5G now arrives in solar panels, in batteries, in electric vehicle supply chains. Beijing learned from the Huawei fight: infrastructure, not handhelds, is where real leverage lies.

RELATED: China’s soft-power trap in your back yard: How the CCP uses sister cities to undermine America

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This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has watched how China operates. Today, energy is not simply commerce but geostrategy. Control the inputs, and you control the future. Just as OPEC once dictated terms to the West by controlling oil, Beijing now holds the choke points of renewables. It has mastered the art of dependency, shifting the world’s reliance from barrels of crude to solar wafers, lithium, and rare-earth elements.

America’s lawmakers cheer each new solar farm, each new promise of “energy independence,” but the irony is bitter. Panels in Texas and Arizona may harvest American sunlight, but the lifeblood of those systems runs through China. The dream of independence has been traded for dependency of another kind: one not anchored in Middle Eastern oil fields but manufactured in Chinese factories and mined from Chinese-controlled terrain.

The consequences are sobering. Imagine a geopolitical crisis over Taiwan. Imagine rising tensions in the South China Sea boiling over. At that moment, America’s electric backbone, already fragile, could become a pressure point. Beijing wouldn’t need to launch a cyberattack. It would simply stop shipping the parts that keep panels running. Maintenance schedules would collapse. Replacement units would vanish. Thousands of megawatts of installed capacity would falter.

A stoppage wouldn’t just dim lights in California or freeze grids in Connecticut. It would ripple through hospitals, data centers, water treatment plants. Whole cities could grind to a halt. America would find itself in a 21st-century hostage crisis. No bullets fired, no bombs dropped; just the cold squeeze of withheld shipments.

Moreover, a compromised inverter, one that responds to servers overseas, is a potential weapon. American intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned about Chinese code found in critical infrastructure. A solar farm riddled with networked devices is no exception. What looks like a harmless box converting sunlight into usable current could, in the wrong hands, act as a switch. Imagine thousands of them going dark or, even worse, surging all at once.

The lesson is clear but unheeded. Energy sovereignty is not a slogan. It cannot be faked with subsidies while leaving the supply chain overseas. Real sovereignty requires mines, refineries, factories, and the political will to endure their messiness. It requires breaking the habit of outsourcing everything dangerous, everything dirty, to China and then pretending the ledger is clean.

This is the world China wanted: a globe wired to its factories, its materials, its technology. It’s time to break free. Because there’s no such thing as MAGA if America kneels to a nation that despises everything it stands for. A country that crushes faith and despises Western values cannot serve as the backbone of American renewal. To rely on China is to outsource sovereignty. Cut the cord, or watch greatness slip away forever.

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A white male who slapped a black male in the face and then got severely beaten in Cincinnati’s infamous mob attack late last month was charged with disorderly conduct, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.

The arraignment for Alex Tchervinski took place Tuesday, WLWT-TV reported.

‘He was not only brutally beaten and robbed during the assault; he’s now being prosecuted when he was attempting to defend himself and his friends.’

Tchervinski, 45, didn’t appear in Hamilton County Municipal Court, but his attorney Douglas Brannon entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Brannon said his client acted in self-defense, WLWT noted.

A cellphone video shows a white male and several black males squaring off before the mob attack begins. The video shows light physical contact between the white male and two black males, while others of both races appear to try to break things up. Then amid verbal sparring, the white male lightly slaps the face of a black male — and then the mob attack commences.

The above video and a second clip show the mob repeatedly stomping, kicking, and punching the white male while he’s lying in the street.

Tchervinski has been identified as one of the six victims in the mob attack.

WLWT said it remains unclear whether the slap led to Tchervinski’s misdemeanor charge.

“I am not aware of what basis they made the disorderly conduct charge,” Brannon said, according to the station. “It’s not been explained to me by any prosecutor or any filing made by the prosecutor. So I’m very interested to learn from them why they felt it necessary to bring this charge under these circumstances.”

Brannon also said Tchervinski was acting in self-defense and should not be charged, according to WLWT. “Alex himself sustained over 28 blows to his head, face area. He was brutally beaten in this instance. I think he is being victimized now for a second time. He was not only brutally beaten and robbed during the assault; he’s now being prosecuted when he was attempting to defend himself and his friends.”

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However, leaders in the black community — including state Rep. Cecil Thomas (D-Cincinnati) — have been saying a disorderly conduct charge isn’t enough, the station reported.

“An assault is an assault. When you put your hands on someone and use force, you have assaulted that individual, and that was an assault,” Thomas told WLWT. “Disorderly conduct is a slap in my face.”

Both sides are agreeing on one thing, however — that city leaders aren’t being transparent, the station said.

Case in point: The city solicitor prosecuting Tchervinski’s case is trying to seal the citation, WLWT reported.

“I can’t explain why the city brings a charge and wants to try and conceal it at the same time,” Brannon noted, according to the station. “I think this is something that needs to be aired to the public. The public needs to see what’s going on and how wrong this prosecution is.”

In addition, not all videos of the incident have been made public, WLWT reported.

“It’s mind-boggling for us to have to get drips of this as we go along. The city should be just as transparent as everybody else involved,” Thomas added to the station. “We need to move from this, and the only way we can is we need to allow the people to understand exactly what happened here, and then we begin a process of healing. We can’t do that with this drip faucet of information coming out.”

Prior to the charge against Tchervinski, seven others — all of them black — were charged in connection with the mob attack. Six of of the seven have been indicted on eight charges each: three counts of felonious assault, three counts of assault, and two counts of aggravated riot. Those six face nearly 30 years in jail if convicted on all charges.

A black male seen on a third cellphone video standing next to the face-slap victim appears to be the first individual to physically retaliate against the white male. As it happens, police are looking for another mob attack suspect, and the image cops released of this suspect appears to match the appearance of the male seen retaliating on video.

Chief Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Kip Guinan addressed the face slap, saying that it came after someone else was already beaten, not before, WXIX reported. Guinan also acknowledged that racial slurs are audible on some of the videos of the mob attack — however, he said the slurs were uttered “a minute and 47 seconds into the brutal beatdown,” the station reported.

“Were there words said? Yes. Were they inappropriate? Absolutely,” Guinan also noted, WXIX reported, before adding that “these poor people were being assaulted, stomped WWE-style, elbow-drops onto pavement. One woman was knocked out to the point her head hit the pavement. We could be here on a homicide.”

That woman — who has come to be known as Holly — is seen on cellphone video (1:34 mark) apparently trying to intervene on behalf of a beaten-up man, but instead another female punches her from behind — and seconds later, a male punches her in the face, knocking her flat on her back on the street.

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Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio shared on X grisly images of Holly’s face days after the mob attack.

“This is Holly,” Moreno wrote in his post. “She wanted to have a nice evening out with friends. Instead, she got this.”

The male accused of punching Holly has been identified as 38-year-old Patrick Rosemond. Prosecutors said that in addition to knocking out and nearly killing Holly, Rosemond “assaulted each and every single victim in brutal and vicious fashion,” WXIX-TV reported earlier this month.

RELATED: Male accused of punching woman in face, knocking her out during Cincinnati mob attack finally appears in court

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Rosemond is seen on video dancing, high-fiving spectators, and taunting victims following the “violent attack,” the prosecution added, according to WXIX. The prosecution added that Rosemond also has prior convictions — including 10 misdemeanors and three felonies, the station said. His bond was set at $500,000.

One of the more vocal advocates for the arrested black suspects has been Pastor Damon Lynch, and he recently stated that Holly wouldn’t have gotten punched had the slap not occurred, WXIX noted in another recent story.

“We do not feel the violence was proportionate to the slap. We are not saying that,” Lynch stated, according to the station. “We’re saying if [the white man] had not slapped this black man in the face, Holly would not have gotten punched out, and the night would have ended.”

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has been commenting on the mob beatdown since it all unfolded late last month, and one of his recent video takes included Lynch altering the lyrics of a Jim Croce song for his own purposes as he spoke to a crowd at a church: “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger, and you don’t slap a black man in the face.”

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Whitlock didn’t take kindly to Lynch’s words.

“Why is he racializing this? It’s disrespectful to slap anyone, regardless of color, in the face. Is he saying … if a black person slaps a black person in the face, it’s OK? If a black gang member shoots a black man in the face, it’s OK? If a black gang member accidentally shoots some young black child, it’s OK?” Whitlock stated. “But everybody knows that you don’t slap a black man in the face, I guess, unless you’re black. He’s in a church talking about common street thugs — and I’ll include the white guy in that, because he … seemed to be trying to fight with someone. … [The reverend is] justifying to the people in that audience and other black people in Cincinnati that if you get slapped in the face by a white person, a gang of you all should jump on that man and beat up the woman. This is inside of a church! This is insanity; this is lack of humility.”

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President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard members in response to Washington, D.C.’s high crime rates continues to spark pushback from left-leaning critics. Another man is facing felony charges after he was accused of assaulting soldiers patrolling the area.

‘President Trump is cleaning it up.’

Scott J. Pichon, a 33-year-old Maryland lawyer, was arrested on Friday and charged with felony assault for allegedly spitting on two South Carolina National Guard members.

The soldiers were patrolling outside Union Station when Pichon allegedly attacked them while riding past on an electric scooter.

Amtrak Police Sergeant Robert Underwood said that he heard Pichon “make a noise like he was coughing up mucus.” He stated that he then observed Pichon spit “a mixture of saliva and mucus” on the troops.

One of the National Guard members was struck in the face and the other in the neck, according to a statement of facts.

Pichon was arrested and appeared in court on Tuesday. With no objection from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey released Pichon on his own recognizance.

RELATED: Deranged DC leftist faces consequences for allegedly hurling a Subway footlong at a federal officer

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This incident marks the second time in recent weeks that law enforcement arrested an individual for allegedly attacking federal officials stationed in D.C. as part of Trump’s effort to make the streets safer.

Sean Charles Dunn, a 37-year-old D.C. resident, was accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal officer earlier this month. Dunn is also facing felony charges.

RELATED: Trump to patrol DC streets alongside law enforcement amid crime crackdown

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Since the surge on D.C. streets started, law enforcement has made 1,094 arrests and seized 155 illegal guns, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro announced on Tuesday.

“Not a single carjacking in over a week. We continue to fight the fight to make sure that people in D.C. are safe,” she stated. “President Trump is cleaning it up.”

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A Democrat easily won a special election in a deep-red Iowa state Senate district on Tuesday, raising serious concerns for Republicans in the state and across the country.

According to unofficial reports from the Woodbury County Auditor’s Office, Democrat Catelin Drey, a 37-year-old activist for abortion rights and gun control, soundly defeated Republican Christopher Prosch for the open District 1 Senate seat, representing the Sioux City area, 55% to 44%. President Donald Trump carried Woodbury County by 23 points less than 10 months ago.

‘Last night, we suffered quite the L in the most Republican part of Iowa.’

Once Drey is sworn into office, Republicans will no longer hold a supermajority in the Iowa Senate as they have had for the past three years.

“I’m just really incredibly honored that the folks in Senate District 1 believed in this campaign as much as the team did, and I am looking forward to representing them well,” Drey told the Des Moines Register.

Other leftists in politics and the media crowed much more loudly, flaunting the results as a harbinger of things to come in the 2026 midterms and beyond.

“Iowans are seeing Republicans for who they are: self-serving liars who will throw their constituents under the bus to rubber stamp Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda — and they’re ready for change,” said a statement from DNC Chairman Ken Martin, according to Fox News.

“Our state is ready for a new direction and Iowa Democrats will keep putting forward candidates who can deliver better representation for Iowans,” added a statement from Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart.

“Every special election is a snapshot of voter energy. And the picture emerging in 2025 suggests a Democratic Party building toward something larger — perhaps a blue wave in 2026,” gloated MeidasTouch News.

RELATED: Don’t let rural America become the next New York City

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A few Republicans tried to shrug the loss off. Republican Party of Iowa Chair Jeff Kaufmann, for instance, even seemed to suggest that Democrats cared more about winning the race than his party did.

“National Democrats were so desperate for a win that they activated 30,000 volunteers and a flood of national money to win a state senate special election by a few hundred votes,” Kaufmann said in a statement, according to the Register. “If the Democrats think things are suddenly so great again for them in Iowa, they will bring back the caucuses.”

However, others like BlazeTV host Steve Deace are taking the results very seriously. “Last night, we suffered quite the L in the most Republican part of Iowa. The kind of special election loss that should be a wake-up call for Republicans nationwide,” he told Blaze News.

“Trump won Woodbury County, which dominates this district, by 23 points in ’24. Yet, we lost this special election by nine points. That is quite the ominous swing. It doesn’t matter how bad Democrats image polling is if we can’t motivate our own voters to show up when Trump isn’t on the ballot.”

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) called the special election after Republican state Sen. Rocky De Witt died of pancreatic cancer in June. De Witt won the 2022 District 1 Senate race by 10 points.

Drey’s victory marks the second unexpected Democrat win in Iowa in 2025. Back in January, Democrat state Sen. Mike Zimmer won a special election in Senate District 35 in Eastern Iowa, which Trump carried by over 20 points in November.

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Minneapolis police confirmed there are approximately 20 victims after a shooter opened fire at a church Wednesday morning, KARE-TV reported.

Police and paramedics arrived at Annunciation Church around 8:30 a.m., where police reported a man dressed in black and armed with a rifle was spotted on the scene, KARE said.

‘Please join me in praying for everyone involved!’

Annunciation Church and Catholic School began the new school semester Monday, the station reported, adding that it serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

The city said that there is no longer a threat to the community.

The shooting reportedly occurred while students were attending Mass at 8:15 a.m. Law enforcement officials confirmed that the suspect was dead at 9:31 a.m.

“I’m monitoring reports of horrific violence in South Minneapolis. I’m in touch with Chief O’Hara and our emergency response team has been activated. We will share more information as soon as we can. Please give our officers the space they need to respond to the situation,” Mayor Jacob Frey stated.

The Minneapolis Police Department, the FBI, and the ATF responded to the scene.

President Donald Trump stated that he has been “fully briefed on the tragic shooting.”

“The FBI quickly responded and they are on the scene. The White House will continue to monitor this terrible situation. Please join me in praying for everyone involved!” Trump wrote in a post on social media.

This is a developing, breaking news story that will be updated.

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