Video shows mom, children being jumped by students outside Chicago-area school
Parents and community members are outraged after a video that has gone viral on social media shows a mom and her children being attacked by students Monday as they walked home from Orville Bright Elementary School on the city’s Far South Side.
Dozens of people showed up to the school Tuesday morning demanding accountability, some saying they’re shocked but not surprised by Monday’s incident and that the students involved should be expelled.
Carshawnda Hatter, a 33-year-old Chicago mom, and her 9-year-old son were taken to Trinity Hospital in serious condition after the attack. According to Chicago police, the attack unfolded just after 3 p.m. in the 10600 block of South Bensley Avenue, in the South Deering neighborhood.
Officers say the victims were walking along the sidewalk in the area when a group of offenders approached and struck them multiple times.
In video of the incident shared on social media, Hatter and her two children can be seen walking as a group of young students follows and yells at them. The kids crowd around Hatter and her children, and that’s when two of the kids start punching them……
And Hatter isn’t the only Orville Bright Elementary School parent fighting for their child. Those who stood outside the school Tuesday say some students have been terrorizing the community.
“It’s been an ongoing thing in this community, and the parents don’t take accountability for anything their kids do,” one parent said. “If my kids were being messy, I’m going to come out here and let it be known.”….
Father left 2-year-old to die in burning car and saved himself, then told cops ‘no one’ was in the vehicle as it went up in flames
An Ohio father is headed to prison for leaving his 2-year-old daughter to die inside a burning car while saving himself, with cops finding the child “in a forward-facing car seat” after the dad tried telling them “no one” was in the vehicle.
Nicholas Stemen, 34, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 22 years in prison and a maximum of 27 years and 6 months for the death of his daughter, Lillyanna, in September 2024, according to court records.
Stemen pleaded guilty in October to aggravated arson, involuntary manslaughter and endangering a child. His indictment and arrest affidavit, which was obtained by Law&Crime, outline how he was drunk off nearly a dozen beers and “driving erratically” before his 2013 GMC Terrain caught fire with Lillyanna in the back seat.
After leaving the roadway, Stemen’s SUV — which was missing a tire — caught on fire after coming to a complete stop. The vehicle was “fully engulfed in flames” when Allen County Sheriff’s deputies, called to the scene by another driver, arrived and found Stemen attempting to stand near it, according to the affidavit.
“[Cops] could smell an odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from Stemen’s person, and he was unsteady on his feet, actually falling to the ground,” the affidavit says. “After the American Township Fire Department had extinguished the fire, [a battalion chief] asked Stemen who else was in the vehicle. Stemen answered no one.”…
Teen used mom’s Glock to shoot sleeping ex-girlfriend dead, then went after her mother, police say
An Arizona teenager was charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend after police said he entered her home and shot her while she was still in bed.
Emilio Rivera, 18, was arrested by officers from the Avondale Police Department on Friday, nearly one week after his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Rhiana Kemplin, was found with a gunshot wound to her head in the home she shared with her mother. According to court documents obtained by local Fox affiliate KSAZ, Kemplin’s mother told police that before she found her daughter, she saw a man in her apartment who aimed a gun at her early in the morning on Nov. 8.
Police stated in the court documents that when Kemplin’s mother encountered the masked suspect, whom she believed was Rivera, she saw him pull the trigger twice and heard a “clicking” sound each time. The gun did not fire, and the suspect ran off. She immediately ran into her daughter’s room, where she found the teenager shot in the head.
According to court documents, the bullet entered the right side of her head and exited the left side, hitting her left hand. Kemplin was taken to the hospital where she was declared brain dead. She passed away that afternoon.
Kemplin’s mother told police that her daughter and Rivera had a tumultuous relationship and that she did not allow him in their apartment…..
The Kessler Twins, a German musical group, die by medically assisted suicide
Alice and Ellen Kessler, the twin sisters who made up the musical group touring Europe and quickly gaining fame, died by joint assisted suicide.
The German Society for Humane Dying, an organization that the twins were part of for more than a year, told The Guardian that the twins had been considering the option of assisted suicide for some time, and a lawyer and doctor had a discussion with them about the process. They added there were no mental health issues with the twins.
“People who choose this option in Germany must be absolutely clear-headed, meaning free and responsible,” a spokesperson with the organization said. “The decision must be thoughtful and consistent, meaning made over a long period of time and not impulsive.”
In 2020, Germany’s highest court overturned a ban on medically assisted suicide, ruling the previous law was unconstitutional and that the constitution includes a right to a self-determined death.
During an interview with Italian news outlet Corriere della Sera in 2024, the sisters said it was their wish to die together, adding that “the idea that one of the two will go first is very difficult to bear.”
The twin sisters were born on Aug. 20, 1936, in Germany, where they trained as ballet dancers during their childhood, and fled to West Germany in the 1950s, where they were able to propel their career. They also saw success in the U.S., making an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and performing alongside artists like Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire….
Trump hints at nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump on Tuesday hinted at the possibility of a U.S. agreement with Saudi Arabia to jump-start a civil nuclear program in that country.
Saudi Arabia has long sought a civil nuclear program, though the country’s geopolitical ambitions and strategic position have given the nuclear powers pause, in part due to the possibility that the program could be militarized.
“I could see that happening. It’s not urgent,” Trump said of a nuclear deal. The president made the remarks during an Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
During that meeting, bin Salman confirmed that his country planned to increase its investment in the United States from a previously planned $600 billion to an even $1 trillion.
November 16, 2025-Cover Story: Fluoride, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson
Anchor: Odds are you grew up not giving too much thought to fluoride in drinking water to prevent cavities. For 80 years, most American cities have been adding the chemical for healthy teeth. For just as long, dentists have been giving children fluoride drops and tablets. Now the FDA has just restricted the use of ingestible fluoride, saying it may be linked to gut and brain issues. And there’s a growing movement to remove fluoride from public drinking water. Adding to the fire, a judge’s order for the EPA to address added fluoride as a toxic substance for the first time, and mitigate what the court says is an unreasonable risk to children’s IQ.
NYC Crime
From subway slashings to surging antisemitic attacks, crime is a centerpoint of debate in New York City. Concerns about the future of law and order in the Big Apple are heightened with the election of incoming socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. This past week, he stoked worries with his new chief of staff appointment: a woman regarded as the “architect” behind his campaign proposal to radically overhaul the NYPD. Makenzie Frost reports on hopes Mamdani can deliver safer streets versus worries he intends to erode the thin blue line.
Student Loans
Average college tuition has skyrocketed 180% in the past 20 years, far outpacing inflation. Now, every working American, even those who never took a student loan, is subsidizing borrowers and their $1.7 trillion debt. The tab works out to up to $5,000 per taxpayer over the next decade. New rules to address the crisis are set to kick in next July. Scott Thuman reports.
Commercial truck driver wanted for terrorism licensed in Pennsylvania
A suspected terrorist arrested in Kansas earlier this month is a licensed truck driver in Pennsylvania, according to federal authorities.
Akhror Bozorov fled his native Uzbekistan after law enforcement there issued an arrest warrant in late 2022. The 31-year-old, not an American citizen, is accused of recruiting on behalf of an unnamed jihadist terrorist group and distributing its propaganda online.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Bozorov crossed the southern border in February 2023, where he was apprehended, released and given work authorization before receiving a commercial truck driver’s license in Pennsylvania in July.
In a statement issued Monday, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin skewered the former Biden administration for allowing “countless terrorists to come into our country.”
“Not only was Akhror Bozorov – a wanted terrorist – released into the country by the Biden administration, but he was he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania,” she said. “This should go without saying, but terrorist illegal aliens should not be operating 18-wheelers on America’s highways.”
Alexis Campbell, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, told The Center Square that the agency reviews “the necessary immigration and naturalization documents” for non-citizen applicants, which confirms legal status “in real-time,” using DHS’s SAVE database.
“If the applicant clears the federal SAVE process, which confirms the applicant is residing in the U.S. under legal status, and successfully meets all other criteria, a license is issued,” she said. “PennDOT completes these two checks to confirm legal status with the federal government every time it issues a license to a non-citizen, and has followed this process without exception in 2025.”
The state’s Republican Party, however, wants answers. In a statement issued Tuesday, Chairman Greg Rothman demanded a “full and immediate investigation” into how Bozorov was granted a CDL in the commonwealth.
“This is not just a policy failure, this is a national security breach right here in Pennsylvania,” he said. “How in the world did someone with terrorist ties pass every check to get behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler in our state? And a Real ID at that? The people who signed off on this need to be found, fired, and Governor Shapiro must answer for this.”
Bozorov’s case is just the latest in a string of arrests that underscore the trucking industry’s growing concern over lackadaisical enforcement of licensing rules that require drivers to pass the test in written English….
Asset managers retreat from ESG push, report finds
Many of the largest asset managers in the United States have sharply reduced their support for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing during the most recent proxy season, a new report says.
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity released its 2025 scorecard. It found that companies such as BlackRock, State Street, JPMorgan, and others are voting against ESG and diversity-related shareholder resolutions far more often than they did three years ago.
The report graded 40 major fund families based on how they voted on 50 shareholder proposals the group described as “extreme ESG-oriented resolutions.”
These proposals included racial and gender quota requirements, net-zero emissions mandates, environmental audits, and political spending reviews. The group says these measures conflict with a manager’s main duty to maximize returns for investors.
For example, an investigation by The Center Square found that the California Public Employees’ Retirement System for state employees lost 71% of its $468 million investment in a clean energy and technology private equity fund.
In response to The Center Square reporting a state lawmaker asked the federal government to investigate.
In The Committee to Unleash Prosperity’s report, BlackRock saw one of the largest changes. It received a C grade in 2023 and a B in 2024. However, this year it received an A. …..
U.S. House passes bill to release Epstein files, moves to Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill for the release of documents associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is about the powerless, taking power away from the very powerful,” Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said on the House floor Tuesday.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, sponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., requires the United States Attorney General “to release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and for other purposes.”
Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., voted against the bill.
“This is about justice for the victims and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, this is about every victim of trafficking and sexual abuse, monstrous crimes that thrive in secrecy and fear,” said Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., voted to approve the resolution ordering further release of the documents related to Epstein. However, in a news conference Tuesday morning, he said the resolution does not address key protections for Epstein’s alleged victims.
“The Democrat-led discharge petition would carelessly dump thousands of documents without proper protections for the innocent,” Johnson said.
Johnson explained that the bill does not give the U.S. Attorney General adequate authority to redact information of the alleged victims mentioned in the documents. He said as many as 1,000 women may be identified in the release of these documents….
Jesse Petrilla: How Jihadists Think–And How To Beat Them
Former Army Captain and interrogator Jesse Petrilla joins The Brief: Insights From The Inside to unpack the jihadist long game—from recruiting child suicide bombers and weaponizing Western campuses to why phrases like “You have the watches, we have the time” matter.
Drawing on 400+ detainee interrogations, Petrilla explains how Islamist extremists think, how they use deception, madrassas, and generational planning, and what free societies can do to defend Western values without apology.
From Al-Qaeda to Hamas: Jesse Petrilla on Defeating Islamist Extremism
Woman doused with unknown liquid and set on fire on late-night Chicago train after argument with man, police say
A 26-year-old woman has been left fighting for her life after she was set on fire while riding on a Chicago train last night.
According to police, the woman was doused in an unknown liquid before being set alight on the CTA Blue Line, as the train approached the Clark and Lake stop in the Loop section of the city.
The horrifying incident took place at 9.25 pm, according to a Chicago Police Department statement, and ended with the woman stumbling onto the platform. Bystanders extinguished the flames as they waited for officials to arrive.
Meanwhile, the suspect, who police say is believed to be around 45 years old, fled the scene and remains at large, officials have said.
The unnamed woman was quickly rushed to Chicago’s Stronger Hospital by the fire department, where she was found to have severe burns to her body and face, and remains in critical condition, according to the statement.
“Just seeing her lying on the ground and she was kind of hyperventilating and in a lot of pain,” a witness told Fox 32. “You could tell she was in really bad shape.
“All the medics were down there and there was a big turnout as far as responders and so forth.”
Another witness told NBC 5 that they “saw a lady that was laying in the ground, and they were trying to give her CPR.” As with the witness who spoke to Fox 32, they noted that the woman appeared to be in a “really bad state.”…
Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms
Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday.
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. They were hoping the new map would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts — up from the 25 they currently hold — and help protect the narrow GOP majority in the U.S. House.
“The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”
Brown ordered that the 2026 congressional election “shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021.” The case will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but time is short: Candidates only have until Dec. 8 to file for the upcoming election…..
US Resolution paves path for Palestinian state; Israel opposes 2-state solution TV7 Israel 18 Nov.
1) The UN Security Council endorses President Trump’s 20-point plan for the Gaza Strip – granting an official mandate to a yet-to-be-formed international stabilization force.
2) Hamas rejects the UN Resolution – insisting that it cannot accept any international body to govern the Gaza Strip.
3) Israelis in Jerusalem voice outrage over prospects of Palestinian statehood.
Trial begins in archdiocese of New Orleans’ $230m settlement for abuse survivors
The archdiocese of New Orleans has begun a three-week confirmation trial that will determine whether a federal bankruptcy judge signs off on a $230m settlement meant to compensate 650 clergy abuse survivors and resolve one of the US’s longest-running and costliest church bankruptcies.
US bankruptcy judge Meredith Grabill will decide whether the plan – five and a half years in the making – is fair to the survivors and dozens of other creditors who have waited through repeated delays, contentious negotiations and a protracted legal fight over a 2021 state law giving survivors of decades-old child sexual abuse the right to sue.
Before the main confirmation issues could be argued, the court took its first step: beginning to formally pull 150 parishes, schools and ministries into the case through what attorneys describe as a “mini-bankruptcy”.
Those affiliated entities – known as apostolates – will collectively contribute $60m to the overall settlement in exchange for being released from liability for any abuse that may have occurred on their properties or during their events.
After three years of insisting that the individual parishes and schools wouldn’t have to contribute to the abuse settlement, Archbishop Gregory Aymond acknowledged in September 2023 that those affiliates would have to contribute through a “channeling injunction”.
For parishioners, the sudden financial responsibility was jarring. Howard Rodgers, a longtime member of the former St Gabriel parish – one of several churches sold during the 2023 consolidation – said he and other churchgoers finally got some clarity at Sunday mass.
“Yesterday at our particular church, St Martin de Porres, the pastor got up and said that whatever our portion is for the settlement, it was going to be taken care of by an anonymous donor,” Rodgers said. “That brought some relief to our church.”
Rodgers said parishioners are ready for an end. “Since it came to us in a great surprise a couple of years ago, I just hope that this is the final chapter,” he said…..
Mom allegedly left her children in filthy apartment with trash, human and animal feces, according to police
Police were called to a residence on South Francis Street over a possible break-in, but instead found the “deplorable conditions” that led them to arrest 31-year-old Teriomas Tremice Johnson, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies found a 12-year-old girl, a 9-year-old girl, and a 9-year-old boy alone in the apartment. There was no working plumbing, and the children were forced to defecate in a cardboard box. Police said three cats also lived in the home and all of the sinks were clogged.
The sheriff’s department also said that the children only sporadically attended school.
The children were placed into the custody of their fathers by Children’s Protective Services.
Johnson is facing three felony charges of second-degree child abuse. Each charge may be punishable by up to 10 years in prison. She had been on probation for 36 months after a conviction on retail fraud and other charges.
The sheriff’s department posted two photographs from the apartment on social media.
Bond for Johnson was initially set at $250,000, but Magistrate Angelena Thomas-Scruggs revoked the bond after the suspect threw a chair and yelled an expletive at the official, according to the sheriff’s office….
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California judge frees second murder suspect without bail as DA warns ‘people’s lives’ are at risk
A California judge has released a second murder suspect without requiring a cent in bail to be posted, just weeks after freeing another accused killer.
Agustin Sandoval and Vicente Aguilera-Chavez were both charged with murder in connection with a June 8, 2017, shooting that left a 21-year-old dead and a 24-year-old injured, according to KTVU. The Sunnyvale, California, nightclub parking lot shooting was allegedly gang-related and resulted in the death of 21-year-old Edu Veliz-Salgado, according to Mercury News.
The case went cold until 2024, when detectives with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety identified the suspects in 2024. Both men were charged with the murder of Salgado, but a spokesman for the Santa Clara County District Attorney told Fox News Digital that Sandoval was the driver of the car that shots were fired from.
During a court hearing on Friday, Judge Hector Ramon released Sandoval on his own recognizance, meaning he does not have to pay bail, the spokesman said
Aguilera was also charged with murder. Ramon released him during an Oct. 31 hearing.
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen told Fox News Digital that two accused murderers are now roaming through the community.
“It was bad enough that an accused murderer with a violent past was let out of custody, now there are two. The odds of re-offense or fleeing from justice just doubled. People’s lives ride on those odds,” Rosen said.
“This is an individual who not only committed a murder, who’s not only been to prison once, but has been to a prison twice, and is a documented gang member, this is a dangerous person, and I’m the district attorney and as the chief law enforcement officer, my job is to protect this community’s safety,” Rosen said. “This person is absolutely a danger to our community.”
“I think that there’s a range in which judges can make decisions that are reasonable and reasonable people can disagree. The reason I’m speaking out about this case is this is not a reasonable decision. This is outside the bounds of what’s acceptable and it’s dangerous to the public,” he added….
Rep. Luna sheds light on Epstein docs battle, torches Dems’ ‘weaponization’
Golden Ages: How Great Civilizations from Ancient Rome to the U.S. Fall & How We Can Save Ours
Why did Rome fall?
There were lots of reasons…disease…barbarian invaders…
But also a reason modern societies should worry about: entitlement spending!
Yes, really.
“Rome could conquer the world,” explains historian Johan Norberg, “but they couldn’t do entitlement reform.”
Report: California Failed to Monitor Embers Days Before Devastating Palisades Fire
Documents obtained by NewsNation showed that the fire began in the early morning of January 1, 2025, and the state failed to monitor the embers over the next six days.
According to documents obtained exclusively by NewsNation, it began in the early morning hours of Jan. 1 when an alleged arsonist started the Lachman Fire.
Six days later, underground embers reignited, starting a second and more devastating fire, the Palisades Fire.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office denied responsibility in a statement to NewsNation.
“The state didn’t start this fire (that was an arsonist), and the state wasn’t responsible for responding to or monitoring the fire,” his office said.
California also claimed in court filings that fire victims cannot claim that the state failed to monitor the original Lachman Fire because the state never had notice of it. However, state records appear to show that the Los Angeles Fire Department contacted state officials in the early morning of January 1 and parks representative arrived at the scene by 4 a.m.
“The LAFD’s records show not only did the LAFD notify the state just after midnight, the state sent a park representative at 1:46 in the morning on Jan. 1, and that state park representative arrived on scene at 4 a.m. on Jan. 1,” said Roger Behle, attorney for the Palisades Fire victims….
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