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System Freed Alleged Molester. Father Who Snapped Got 5 Years.

Cain Velasquez

Cain Velasquez will spend five years in prison for trying to shoot the man who allegedly molested his son — while that accused predator walked free the same week he was booked, no ankle monitor, no supervision.

The former UFC heavyweight champion’s case isn’t an argument for vigilantism. It’s an indictment of every institution that failed a child and then punished the father who refused to accept that failure.

In an interview on the Shawn Ryan Show, Velasquez described the night his son disclosed the abuse at his daycare. “He tells me things that are happening to him,” Velasquez said. His son said it had been going on “for a while.”

The family did what you’re supposed to do. They reported it. They called the authorities. The suspect, Harry Goularte, was booked — and released by Friday of the same week.

No ankle monitor. No restrictions. The daycare, run out of a house by Goularte’s family, wasn’t shut down. The owner, Patty Goularte — Goularte’s mother — sent a mass email calling the allegations false and announcing they’d stay open. She left the Velasquez family on the distribution list.

“Just seeing my son and seeing all the traumas now come out because he’s disclosed this. Seeing that hurt in him, breaking down crying,” Velasquez said. “I f*cking lost a will to live.”

Velasquez said he believed the daycare operators were complicit, that Goularte “would go in during the daycare, hang out with the kids, and then take them to the bathroom” while the adults who ran it let it happen.

He also said community members knew about Goularte’s alleged behavior and did nothing. Later information, he said, suggested “the dad has been doing it forever.”

On Feb. 28, 2022, Velasquez chased Goularte’s vehicle at high speed in Santa Clara County and fired at it. In August 2024, he pleaded no-contest to attempted murder and other charges.

He was sentenced to five years, released on parole in February 2026 after credit for time served and house arrest.

The system moved with urgency to punish Velasquez. It showed none when a child was violated.

Consider the contrast reported by the New York Post this month: in Indiana, a father and son — Dairus Thompson II and III — are charged with gunning down high school football standout Christopher Wilson Jr. in a drive-by over a personal beef, targeting the wrong person entirely.

Charging documents obtained by Fox 59 say the elder Thompson gave his 17-year-old “step-by-step instructions” on conducting the shooting. An innocent teenager is dead over a grudge — and a father taught his child to kill.

Two fathers. Two acts of gun violence. One snapped after institutions failed his son.

The other coached his teenager to murder a stranger. The justice system treated the desperate father as the problem worth locking up fast.

The question isn’t whether Velasquez was right to chase an alleged child molester with a gun.

The question is why a system that exists to protect children made a father feel that was his only option — and why that same system was so much more efficient at locking him up than keeping a predator away from kids. …

Melania Trump Credited With Ukraine Ceasefire — Where Are the Senators?

Melania Trump and Ukraine ceasefire, AI image.

Fourteen civilians dead at a Ukrainian train station, two teenage girls killed in Chernihiv — and the only person who has actually produced a ceasefire in this war is Melania Trump.

While Russian drones shred commuters on Ukrainian platforms and President Zelensky demands still more American sanctions, a localized truce in the besieged city of Oleshky — credited by both Moscow and Kyiv to the First Lady — has held into its third day.

That deal didn’t come from the State Department, the Pentagon, or any senator voting to ship your tax dollars eastward while your own communities crack apart.

It came from a humanitarian effort the White House says Melania Trump helped broker, with Pope Leo XIV also pressing for the agreement.

Here is what that ceasefire produced: military units on both sides cleared landmines. Humanitarian aid was poised to reach roughly 2,000 people trapped in Oleshky without food, water, or medicine.

Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets confirmed “no violations of the ceasefire have been reported.” His Russian counterpart Yana Lantratova confirmed the same — and said the operation was five months in the making.

Civilians were to be allowed to evacuate, to Russia or Ukraine, per their wishes.

That is what peace looks like when someone bothers to pursue it.

The war grinds on everywhere else. CBS News reported 56 people injured across the latest strikes, including 10 children. A 40-year-old man had his legs amputated.

BBC published images of bodies strewn across a blast-damaged Dnipro platform near a train with smashed windows.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed air defenses downed 1,214 Ukrainian drones overnight — roughly half heading for Moscow, which is hosting a Russia-Africa Summit attended by delegations from 48 countries.

The killing runs both ways.

Zelensky’s answer to all of this? More.

He called for further US, European, and G7 sanctions on Russia and criticized a deal struck between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that eased some sanctions and allowed the US to import Russian diesel.

Translation: cheaper fuel for American consumers is offensive to a foreign government that wants Washington underwriting its war indefinitely.

The framing gap between the two outlets tells its own story. CBS News credited Melania Trump’s role in brokering the Oleshky ceasefire prominently.

BBC mentioned the truce but buried the First Lady’s involvement entirely — a telling omission from an outlet that can’t bring itself to acknowledge a Trump achieving something the entire Western diplomatic establishment has failed to do in years.

CBS noted that “previous efforts to secure ceasefires either never worked out or the truces quickly fell apart.”

The permanent class in Washington has had years to produce what Melania Trump produced in one humanitarian corridor. They haven’t.

Instead they’ve delivered body counts, blank checks, and lectures about how anyone questioning the spending is extreme. ….

US Midterm Early Voting Hits Record 48 Million

US Midterm Early Voting Hits Record 48 Million. Credit: Reuters.

Nearly 48 million Americans had cast their ballots early by Friday, setting a new record for midterm elections and marking increased participation in several… The post US Midterm Early Voting Hits Record 48 Million appeared first on Latest Breaking News – News Central TV.

The Midterm Polls are WRONG? | Victor Davis Hanson Daily Brief

Are the 2026 midterm election polls telling the whole story, or are Republicans being underestimated once again?

In this episode of The Daily Brief, Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the approaching 2026 midterm elections, Donald Trump’s strategy to mobilize Republican voters, and the critical Senate and House races that could determine control of Congress.

With Election Day approaching, Hanson questions the accuracy of political polling and argues that the Republican Party may be in a stronger position than many political commentators suggest. Drawing on historical midterm election results, the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections, and recent polling trends, Hanson examines whether Republicans can overcome the historical disadvantages facing the party in power.

Why The Viral Red Baron Worker Struck A Nerve In All Of Us

DOJ charges five in alleged $1.3 million student aid fraud scheme

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  • On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced ‘Operation Ghostbusters’ in Alexandria, Virginia, revealing a massive fraud scheme involving more than 830,000 potentially fraudulent student financial aid accounts using stolen American identities.
  • Fraudsters exploited stolen personal information to create ‘ghost students’ enrolled in colleges nationwide; scammers used artificial intelligence to complete coursework and paid individuals to appear in virtual classes to maintain enrollments.
  • “These are not isolated errors. This is organized fraud at scale,” Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said, as investigators identified more than $32 million in losses and seized more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency.
  • Five individuals have been charged so far, with more arrests expected; authorities also charged four defendants in New Jersey in connection with an alleged scheme involving more than $1.3 million in proceeds.
  • The FBI now has 45 open investigations across 26 field offices involving more than 20 U.S. attorneys’ offices, while scammers funneled remaining funds into bank accounts with some money sent overseas to Kenya.

LARA LOGAN: Democrats Are Showing Their Hand Because They’re Panicking Ahead Of The Midterms. They’re Not Going To Get The Tsunami They Want Without Cheating

Obama didn’t deal with ANY of the Ilhan Omar issues, critic warns

Podcast host Ben Ferguson joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to analyze criticism of former President Barack Obama over his remarks about the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as probe intensifies.

FETAL MEDICINE, LATE-TERM ABORTION & THE ABORTION PILL with Dr. Bill Lile | Lara Logan | Ep 101

At 26 weeks, surgeons opened a mother’s uterus, placed an IV in her baby’s tiny hand, and removed a tumor from the baby’s beating heart; the child remained in the womb for ten more weeks before birth.

On Going Rogue with Lara Logan, OB-GYN Bill Lyle describes fetal surgery and other treatments including blood transfusions and spina bifida repair and argues that such advances should change how people think about abortion.

The conversation also turns to the practical and ethical questions surrounding high-risk pregnancy care, IVF and frozen embryos, and what happens when a mother’s life is in danger.

California Sanctuary Cities Ignored 8,901 ICE Detainers and Released Violent Criminals, House Judiciary Report Finds

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A new House Judiciary Committee report states that authorities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego ignored a combined 8,901 ICE detainers, allowing criminal aliens with records that included homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, weapons offenses, and child abuse to be released back into communities.

The 22-page interim staff report, led by Chairman Jim Jordan and Rep. Tom McClintock, was released on Thursday.

According to the report, the Los Angeles Police Department honored just four of the 4,177 ICE detainers it received between January 2020 and June 2026, a compliance rate below 0.1 percent.

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office rejected all 2,201 detainers it received between January 2020 and August 2026.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office declined 2,527 detainers between January 2023 and June 2026, including 894 in the last year.

The report details: …

Ilhan Omar’s defense DESTROYED by new report

Vice President JD Vance reacts to a New York Times report about Rep. Omar’s marriage and allegations of fraud.

Turley: The ‘wheels are FALLING OFF’ for Ilhan Omar

Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley discusses federal immigration probe into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Turley also weighs in on an investigation into an alleged Alaska ballot plot.