‘I’ll probably kill you’: Man threatened ex-girlfriend before detonating an explosive under her truck while she slept at her mother’s house, feds say
Michael Beugli, 32, was charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon with possession of a firearm while a convicted felon, possession of unregistered firearm silencers, and possession of an unregistered destructive device.
The federal charges came after Beugli was arrested in March for charges in Jackson County in connection with an alleged explosion at the home of his ex-girlfriend’s mother.
According to the Ashland Police Department, officers responded to a vehicle explosion in the driveway of a home in Ashland, Oregon, at 4:43 a.m. on March 25.
Police said the vehicle was “parked and unoccupied,” but investigators uncovered what they believed was a “potential secondary explosive device in the vehicle.”
Several agencies joined the investigation, including the Oregon State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
According to a detention memo reviewed by Law&Crime, Beugli was already on law enforcement’s radar after an incident on Feb. 24.
Authorities said the mother of Beugli’s ex-girlfriend called 911 after she saw Beugli “throwing firearms” out of his home and at her daughter, who had been in an on-and-off relationship with Beugli for about 10 years.
At the time of the incident, she was trying to leave Beugli for good.
The woman’s mother told police that Beugli was “threatening to kill” her daughter. …
Panda Express wants its $100K managers to buy homes — here’s how hard that is in 2026
Panda Express has an admirable way of measuring whether some of its employees are succeeding.
The company’s co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Cherng told NBC News that he keeps track of how many Panda Express managers earn at least $100,000 a year, and whether they’re able to buy a home.
It’s definitely a worthy goal, especially as he uses it as a gauge for his own success. There’s just one problem: In 2026, even a $100,000 salary may not be enough to afford the typical American home.
Here’s what the numbers actually look like.
$100,000 isn’t quite the homebuying salary it used to be
Redfin recently calculated that an American needs to earn about $109,800 a year to afford the typical U.S. home for sale. That’s roughly $10,000 more than Panda’s six-figure benchmark.
Redfin defines “affordable” as spending no more than 30% of income on the monthly housing payment and assumes a 15% down payment.
Meanwhile, the median existing home sold for $434,100 in July, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Mortgage rates, of course, aren’t helping.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was 6.66% as of Aug. 27, according to Freddie Mac. A year earlier, it was 6.56%.
That means earning $100,000 certainly doesn’t make homeownership impossible. But it no longer automatically puts a typical home comfortably within reach.
Then there’s the cash you need before getting the keys
The monthly mortgage payment is only half the story.
Consider a $434,100 home. A 15% down payment would be about $65,000. Put down 10%, and you’re still looking at more than $43,000.
And then come closing costs. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) says they typically run another 2% to 5% of the purchase price, separate from your down payment.
On a $434,100 home, that’s roughly $8,700 to $21,700.
Suddenly, a buyer earning $100,000 could need tens of thousands of dollars in cash before making their first mortgage payment.
Pro tip: Don’t make your savings goal simply “the down payment.” Estimate the down payment, closing costs, and moving expenses. Then leave yourself an emergency fund for the inevitable expense that shows up after you get the keys.
Your $100K salary isn’t the only number lenders see
Your $100K salary isn’t the only number lenders see
Two people earning exactly $100,000 can have dramatically different homebuying power.
Why? Because of debt.
Mortgage lenders look at your debt-to-income ratio, or DTI, which compares your monthly debt obligations with your gross monthly income.
Fannie Mae guidelines generally cap DTI at 36% for manually underwritten loans, although borrowers who meet certain requirements can go as high as 45%.
Loans run through Fannie Mae’s automated underwriting system can allow up to 50%.
So a $600 car payment, $400 in student loans, and $300 in minimum credit-card payments can eat into the mortgage payment you can qualify for.
Pro tip: Ask a lender to run the numbers before you’re ready to buy. Find out whether putting another $10,000 toward your down payment or eliminating a monthly debt would improve your buying power more.
Where you live changes everything
There’s another huge flaw in treating $100,000 as a universal homeownership benchmark: your ZIP code.
In some parts of the country, six figures can still provide plenty of buying power.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, $100,000 obviously doesn’t come close to affording the typical home, which requires a salary close to $445,000.
But consider Phoenix, which is a much more typical example.
Redfin’s latest analysis found that a household needs to earn about $118,500 a year to afford the typical Phoenix-area home.
That’s nearly $20,000 more than Panda’s $100,000 benchmark.
And Phoenix isn’t alone.
In Dallas, Redfin puts the required income at about $118,900, while Austin buyers need roughly $132,600, and Denver buyers need about $157,100.
Meanwhile, $100,000 can still be enough in markets like Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.
The lesson isn’t that someone earning $100,000 shouldn’t try to buy a home. It’s that “I make six figures” and “I can afford a house” are often no longer the same statement.
How does $100K compare with other fast-food managers? ….
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Oklahoma City Manager Arrested on 11 Felony Voter Fraud Charges After Falsifying Registration Applications With Other People’s Names
The city manager of a tiny Oklahoma town has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of voter registration fraud after investigators say she submitted applications using other people’s names and forged their signatures.
Shonda Lou Barnes, city manager for the Town of Mannsville in Johnston County, was taken into custody at her home Monday afternoon on a warrant charging her with 11 counts of false affidavit in voter registration. She was booked into the Johnston County Jail, KXII reported.
The Johnston County Election Board flagged the applications in late May.
The forms had been submitted from the Mannsville area just before the voter registration deadline so the names could vote in the June primary.
Investigators found multiple applications bearing matching signatures that did not belong to the people whose names were on the forms. Authorities then traced those applications to Barnes.
Johnston County Sheriff Gary W. Dodd did not mince words:
“As one of Oklahoma’s 77 constitutionally elected sheriffs, it is our duty and the duty of every Sheriff’s Office in this State to protect the integrity of our elections — one of the most sacred rights of citizens of this country.”
This is not some abstract “voting irregularity.”
This is a sitting city official allegedly manufacturing voters by stealing identities and forging signatures so those names could participate in a primary election.
And it is not Barnes’ first tangle with public money and public records. …
Wealthy California city votes to ban all tobacco and nicotine sales
A Northern California city has moved to ban the sale of all tobacco and nicotine products from stores in the wealthy enclave.
The Corte Madera Town Council voted 3-2 on Tuesday to advance an ordinance that would prohibit businesses from selling, commercially distributing or delivering tobacco and nicotine products within the Marin County community, according to SFGate.
The sweeping ban would cover traditional cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco, as well as newer products such as e-cigarettes, vapes, heated tobacco devices and nicotine pouches such as Zyn.
Corte Madera — which has an average household income of $232,763, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — is home to roughly 10,000 people.
The ordinance would give retailers a limited window to clear out their inventory before the ban takes effect.
Under the proposal, stores would be allowed to sell their remaining tobacco and nicotine products through Jan. 31, 2027.
Beginning Feb. 1, 2027, sales of the products would be prohibited.
The measure does not ban residents from personally possessing or using tobacco or nicotine products.
The council’s vote came after an emotional public-comment session that included several students from Redwood High School’s Tobacco Use Prevention Education group.
Mari Silva, a senior at the school, urged officials to think about families who have already lost loved ones to tobacco-related illnesses, SFGate reported. …
The issue has also sparked fierce opposition, with some residents warning that the town could be crossing a dangerous line.
Corte Madera resident David Macpherson described the proposal as a “slippery slope,” while resident Peter Massick bluntly declared: “I’m also against prohibition.” …
States now must report undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk federal funding, DOJ says
All states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a new legal opinion.
The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel’s prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities.
“Congress wrote this requirement plainly,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, said in a statement.
“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,” Gaiser said. “Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”
The DOJ in a statement Wednesday said the Office of Legal Counsel’s Sept. 1 opinion “explains that Congress defined ‘State’ broadly in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.”
“As a result, when a state accepts federal TANF or SSI funds, the entire state government — including all component agencies — is bound by federal law to share information with DHS about individuals the state knows to be not lawfully present,” the DOJ said.
The new opinion only applies proactively, not to past enrollments in TANF and SSI.
All 50 states, the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories participate in both programs. Federal TANF funding grants top $16.4 billion annually, according to the DOJ. ..
Bernie Moreno Lashes Out Against ‘Drive-Only’ Licenses for Illegals
Citing an ABC 13 Action News article from last week, Moreno’s letter detailed the death of Karr Grimes, as well as others injured, including a 3-year-old child. Washington G. Naula Ochoa, 34, has been charged with vehicular homicide.
According to the report, Naula Ochoa “failed to yield at a stop sign.”
His “truck entered the intersection and struck a southbound SUV driven by” Karr Grimes, who “lost control of the SUV, which went off the west side of the road and overturned. Karr Grimes died at the scene, troopers said.”
Despite Naula Ochoa’s lack of legal status, he was given a “drive-only” license by Connecticut, to Moreno’s outrage.
“If it were not for policy you championed, which allows illegal aliens to receive a ‘drive-only’ license, this young man may have reached his destination,” Moreno wrote to Lamont, referencing Karr Grimes. “Despite his lack of legal status, Connecticut issued him a driver’s license. Horrifyingly, Connecticut not only permits illegal aliens to receive a driver’s license, but encourages it, all while Americans pay the ultimate price. Quite simply, your policies are killing my constituents.”
His letter adds more context about this program, with the number of those granted such licenses not being insignificant.
“Connecticut has issued nearly 60,700 ‘drive-only’ licenses to illegal aliens. This represents nearly 61,000 additional opportunities for illegal aliens to harm and kill American citizens on our interstate highways,” Moreno continued. “You should be ashamed of this policy and its dangerous consequences, yet your support for illegal aliens knows no bounds.” …
Appeals court vacates climate activist’s 25-year sentence over ‘terrorist motive’ finding
A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Canadian national Cameron Smith’s sentence Monday and sent the case back to federal district court in North Dakota for resentencing after finding an error in the calculation of Smith’s advisory sentencing guidelines.
“A desire for public attention does not without more establish a motive to intimidate or coerce those who reach or watch the news,” the panel wrote in their Monday opinion. “The government suggested at oral argument that Smith hoped for others to ‘rise up’ and join his climate activism, but a motive to recruit followers is not a motive to intimidate and coerce.”
The panel included Chief Judge Steven Colloton, Judge Raymond Gruender and Judge Jonathan A. Kobes. Colloton and Gruender are appointees of former President George W. Bush while Kobes is an appointee of President Donald Trump.
Smith pleaded guilty in September 2024 to two counts of destruction of an energy facility stemming from separate attacks in South Dakota in 2022 and North Dakota in 2023, according to the Department of Justice.
In March 2025, U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor, a Trump appointee, sentenced Smith to 150 months on each of the two counts, resulting in a total sentence of 25 years.
The judge had found at the time that Smith’s crimes met the definition of “terrorism.” ..
U.S. Mint debuts $1 Trump coin
The U.S. Mint on Wednesday released a $1 coin bearing the image of President Donald Trump.
The special release of 250,000 coins was meant to mark the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, The Hill reported. The coin’s design was controversial due to its inclusion of Trump, a still-living person, on its side.
While former U.S. presidents have appeared on coins before, Trump is the first to do so while in office. The Mint has previously issued coins of all deceased former presidents, save for Jimmy Carter.
Its release follows Trump’s staging of the “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., his hosting of a UFC fight on the White House lawn, and his orchestration of a race through the streets of the nation’s capital.
Nearly 70,000 people without power as Edouard hits Texas, catastrophic flash floods possible
ropical Storm Edouard, which weakened to a tropical depression upon making landfall Tuesday, has slammed the Texas Gulf Coast with heavy rains and flash flooding.
Nearly 70,000 people are still without power in Texas, according to Poweroutage.com, and another 2,600 in Louisiana.
The storm made landfall near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, near Port Arthur, Texas, at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, producing sustained winds of 60 mph and a minimum central pressure of 996 mb, according to the National Hurricane Center.
As of 11 a.m. ET Wednesday, the depression is producing wind gusts 35 to 45 mph, and the center warns that flash flooding is likely across the region, especially in urban areas. Some areas could experience catastrophic flash flooding.
The Port Arthur Independent School District announced that it will remain closed Wednesday to assess damage to infrastructure, the New York Post reported, and city emergency management officials said they were investigating widespread reports of gas odors across parts of the city when the storm made landfall.
Both the city and Jefferson County issued disaster declarations ahead of the storm to help speed up the response.
USS Abraham Lincoln reaches port in Thailand after nearly 9 month deployment
The USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand on Wednesday, marking an end to its lengthy stint at sea amid the ongoing Iran war.
The aircraft carrier has spent much of 2026 in the Indian Ocean and was at sea without a stay in port for more than 250 days, the Associated Press reported.
The USS George Washington replaced the Lincoln in its deployment in late August. Prior to its relief, the Lincoln was the subject of reports detailing poor conditions and faltering morale among the crew.
Earlier in the conflict, the USS Gerald Ford was forced to stop in Crete for repairs after damage to the plumbing system led to internal flooding.
President Donald Trump initiated the war in late February with the aim of forcing Iran to the negotiating table on its nuclear program. While the president has remained adamant that Iran may not possess a nuclear weapon, he has sent mixed signals about his willingness to leave the current regime in place.
Judge dismisses Justice Department suit against California over transgender sports policies
A federal judge has dismissed a Justice Department suit against California over its policies on transgender participation in sports.
The Department of Justice took exception to California’s policy requiring schools to allow students to participate in athletics on the basis of their gender identity.
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In U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela ruling Monday, granted California’s motion to dismiss, saying that the state and several co-defendants lacked proper notice that they risked the loss of federal funding over the matter.
Valenzuela did not address the government’s contention that Title IX requires schools to protect equal access to sports on the basis of biological sex.
California’s Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation were both defendants in the suit.
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Parent Alert! Community Schools’ Dangerous Agenda
Do your kids attend a Community School? Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids and independent researcher and mom Kelly Schenkoske reveal a deceptive agenda beneath these rapidly growing local educational models across the nation.
Learn about the origins and goals of Community Schools, as well as concerns regarding coercive health services manipulating minors under the banner of “education.”
FULL REVIEW: Inside the American Democracy Exhibit at the Smithsonian American History Museum
The Daily Signal takes you through the Smithsonian American History Museum’s American Democracy exhibit and fact checks the White House and Congress’s investigations as they continue to expose the institution.
US, IRGC clash after Saudi ship hit; Bessent: US, China align on Iran – TV7 Israel News – 2 Sept.
1) The U.S. Military and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps exchange fire – after the terror regime in Iran struck at least one Saudi vessel transiting the strait of Hormuz. 2) U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent insists Washington and Beijing have more in common than differences in relation to Iran. 3) Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledges Moscow’s support of “goods” to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Navy Wastes $3.4 Billion to Sustain Crews, Submarines that “Provide No Operational Capability”
Adding to the pain of a staggering $40 trillion national debt, which undoubtedly includes wasteful government spending and failed projects, a new federal audit reveals the U.S. Navy has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars to sustain idle submarines and crews that “provide no operational capability.”
The scandal involves the country’s fleet of submarines, critical to national defense because they carry out Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, project power ashore with Tomahawk cruise missiles and support battle group operations.
As of fiscal year 2025, the Navy has 44 attack submarines, according to the probe, recently published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, and the vessels are some of the most requested assets by global combatant commanders.
However, in the last 10 years the Navy has lost over 15,000 operational days and an estimated $3.4 billion because maintenance delays have kept active attack submarines idle.
“Lost operational days include delays completing depot maintenance and active idle time,” the GAO report states. “Active idle time describes a period when an attack submarine and its crew must remain pier-side because they are no longer certified to conduct normal operations and cannot be inducted into a maintenance period.”
The probe also found that the Navy faces “significant challenges” managing inactive idle time for attack submarines.
This is when a sub designated for decommissioning cannot be inducted into a dry dock in a shipyard. “As a result, the submarine and its crew must remain pier-side until a shipyard has the capacity in a dry dock to defuel their nuclear reactor,” according to the GAO.
The Navy’s 44 active attack submarines need access to shipyards for maintenance and repairs, but the constant backlog of older vessels that have been designated for decommissioning block access to the dry docks creating a serious holding pattern known as idle time.
Although this technically differs from active idle time when operational subs wait for maintenance, both are tremendously inefficient, drain taxpayer resources and slash the number of submarines available for deployment.
In the period examined, fiscal year 2016 through 2025, the maintenance delays wasted huge amounts of public funds to sustain both crews and submarines that provided no operational capability and contributed nothing to national defense.
“Inactive idle time for submarines has grown and is projected to worsen,” the GAO confirms, adding that “without mitigation, 15 attack submarines will enter inactive idle time from fiscal year 2026 through fiscal year 2030.”
During that time the Navy could incur over 14,000 days of inactive idle time and $3.1 billion in costs to operate and support the inactive submarines, the probe found. ….
Illinois Mother Hospitalized After 2-Year-Old Son’s Death Ruled Homicide
On Tuesday afternoon, Frankfort, Illinois, officers responded to a home on Brook Stone Court around 4 p.m., where they discovered the unresponsive toddler who died despite CPR; his mother was hospitalized with non-life-threatening self-harm injuries. Authorities classified the case as a domestic-related homicide, confirmed by Wednesday’s autopsy, though no name, exact cause, or motive details have been released. Social media users drew parallels to Lindsay Clancy’s ongoing Massachusetts trial, where she’s accused of killing her three children in 2023 amid claims of postpartum psychosis, with some calling it a possible copycat incident.
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THE IRS LIES TO ITS OWN COMPUTERS with Joe Banister | Going Rogue with Lara Logan |
Former Special Agent Joe Banister Exposes the Fake 1040-A and how the IRS allegedly fabricates computer codes to create fraudulent tax assessments against individuals who never filed returns.
Banister, who resigned from the IRS in 1999 after concluding most Americans aren’t legally required to pay federal income tax, shares his personal battle against the agency, including a criminal prosecution that ended in acquittal.
He also discusses constitutional arguments surrounding the 16th Amendment and income tax, directing listeners to his website, agentfortruth.com, for further evidence.
OVERNIGHT: US military unleashes FURY on Iran as Trump issues BOLD warning
Fox News’ Trey Yingst reports the latest on the conflict with Iran after military strikes against IRGC targets. Senior strategic analyst Jack Keane and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also weigh in during ‘Fox & Friends.
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