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Teen baseball players face 150yrs in prison after rape charge
Lincoln Bates, 18, Hudson Haley, 18, Carter Miller, 18, Landon Waddell, 19, Peyton Mandel, 17, and Karter Sibson, 17 are all accused of the sex assaults while participating in a tournament between June 1 and 4.
All six are charged with second-degree rape and aiding and abetting second-degree rape.
Haley faces an extra rape charge for a second victim, while Waddell was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting for a second victim.
Both victims were 16 at the time. The gender of the second victim is unknown.
The circumstances of the assault were initially framed as a ‘team hazing ritual’, but Pennington County State’s Attorney Lara Roetzel rejected the notion, instead calling it a ‘forcible assault.’
Sage Steele waits two years to reveal Biden’s ‘heartbreaking’ confusion in ESPN interview
“He struggled,” Ms. Steele told comedian Bill Maher on his “Club Ransom” podcast, which was aired this week.
She described the interview, which was filmed as a prerecorded segment ahead of ESPN’s coverage of Major League Baseball’s Opening Day that year, as “the saddest thing.”
“And here’s the saddest thing — his voice just trailed off. He said, ‘I was good’ and then he went silent, and he goes … ‘Uh, never mind,’” Ms. Steele recalled.
“I thought it was so sad because I realized that’s why he was in the basement during the whole election cycle — because even then he couldn’t finish his sentences. He struggled,” she said.
“Forget about politics. I don’t care, I didn’t vote for him,” she said, adding that she thinks Mr. Biden is a terrible president.
“However, forget that — the human aspect of what we’re witnessing right now with him, to me, is heartbreaking. And it’s inexcusable by the family when you knew during the election,” she said.
Ms. Steele’s comments come as Mr. Biden faces increasing pressure to drop out of the 2024 race amid voter skepticism of his age and a series of high-profile verbal miscues.
On Wednesday, Mr. Biden struggled to get through a speech about canceling $9 billion of student loan debt. He bungled the name of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, calling him “Minority Leader Jeffers.” He said he reached an “argument” with Congress, instead of an “agreement,” and botched the internet address of his administration’s student aid website, having to repeat it three times before getting it correct.
U.S. economy battered by summer and fall strikes, causing billions in losses
Strikes by the entertainment industry and the United Auto Workers have already triggered an estimated $10 billion in losses across the economy, but some analysts say those numbers underestimate the damage because it’s near impossible to measure the full impact of a work stoppage.
Strikes have far-reaching consequences that hurt everything from the nation’s total output, corporate sales, consumer spending and employment to businesses that depend on striking workers for sales, products and supplies.
President Biden’s aggressively pro-union policies have been blamed for emboldening labor leaders and fomenting the rash of strikes across the U.S. The White House insists he’ll never back down from advocating for workers’ rights and collective bargaining.
This year has already seen the highest number of workers on strike since 1986 and it’s growing. More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees walked off the job Wednesday, which union representatives say is the largest strike of health care workers in U.S. history.
It will affect hundreds of hospitals across several states as workers call for increased staffing levels and wage increases.
More than 255,000 apprehended at southern border in September
This includes at least 222,009 apprehensions and 33,203 gotaways. “Gotaways” is the official U.S. Customs and Border Protection term that refers to the number of people known and reported to illegally enter the U.S. between ports of entry who intentionally try to evade capture and don’t return to Mexico.
In September, the most gotaways were reported in the El Paso and Tucson sectors. As in August, with most Yuma agents pulled out of the field to deal with an influx of people arriving at open areas of the border wall, gotaway numbers reported by agents last month were extremely low, which is out of the ordinary.
CBP doesn’t publicly report gotaway data. The data was obtained by The Center Square from a U.S. Border Patrol agent who provided it on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. It only includes Border Patrol data and excludes Office of Field Operations data. Total numbers are higher once OFO data is included.
Dealers turn to old opioids to create powerful new drug cocktails
The drugs, called nitazenes or benzimidazole-subclass opioids, were first created in the late 1950s.
Swiss chemical company CIBA Aktiengesellschaft developed protonitazene, metonitazene and other synthetic substances of the benzimidazole structural class as alternatives to morphine.
Although they had potent analgesic effects, clinical development was abandoned because of an increased risk of negative side effects.
They have since emerged as drugs of abuse, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
A 2022 World Health Organization report on protonitazene found the drug was slightly more potent than fentanyl. Fentanyl is about 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the DEA.
Between 2019 and 2021, protonitazene was found in forensic analysis in cases in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, according to a 2023 study published in “Pain and Therapy.”
A recent Department of Justice crackdown that resulted in indictments against eight China-based companies and their employees for drug crimes sheds new light on how nitazenes are making their way into the illicit drug supply in the U.S.
Americans are gravely concerned about being targeted like Trump: Corey Lewandowski | Newsline
On Thursday’s “Newsline,” former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Trump attorney Jesse Binnall sound off on reports the FBI targeting Trump supporters ahead of the 2024 Election.
Police ID motorcyclist arrested for attack near City Hall seen in viral video
The attack happened while the suspect was with a group of ATV and dirt bike riders in the area of City Hall around 9:40 p.m. Sunday.
Authorities say Heron was seen on video using his feet to smash a mother’s rear windshield while her two children were riding in the back seat.
When he was confronted by the woman who was driving the car, the suspect picked up a black handgun that had fallen from his waistband and pointed it at her.
The driver of the car is Nikki Bullock. She was with her girlfriend, their 5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, delivering for Uber Eats when the incident occurred.
Fight over video game leads to shooting; 3 Philly police officers wounded, suspect dead
According to police, there was an argument between a father and son, apparently over video games.
At some point, the boy’s uncle got involved and an argument escalated.
Police say the child and uncle ran upstairs, the father followed them, and that’s when he opened fire, striking the uncle.
The child and uncle then called 911.
“Unknown if doer still on location. Juvenile stated his dad shot his uncle two times,” an emergency dispatcher can be heard saying over the radio.
According to investigators, the father shot two police officers and a police sergeant who were responding to the scene.
Squalid ‘House of Horror’ Where Mom Allegedly Kept Sons Locked in Room Sells for $135K, Mass Cleanup Underway (Exclusive)
Eder said the children were in such bad shape that it looked like they were wearing “Halloween costumes” and “had been whipped with a belt.”
In the weeks following the rescue, Eder says neighbors noticed rats running from the home as work began at the property.
“There was just a bunch of junk,” says Eder, adding that he saw six 21-yard dumpsters filled with items pulled from the home at one point. “We saw toys come out of there with human waste on them.”
“It was bad,” he continues. “We call it the House of Horror here in the neighborhood.”
Wisconsin prosecutors have charged Koch and Manke with four felony counts related to false imprisonment and neglect of a child. If convicted on all counts, the pair could receive a fine of $120,000 and a sentence of 43 years.
Cartels use social media to recruit American teens for drug, human smuggling in Arizona: “Uber for the cartels”
“We have over a hundred juveniles in the last 18 months that we’ve apprehended in this county smuggling, all the way to the age of 13 and 12 years of age down here, driving grandma’s car, a friend’s car, or mom and dad’s car down here, and it’s social media,” County Sheriff Mark Dannels told CBS News.
To combat the growing problem, Arizona implemented stringent felony human smuggling legislation last year. The majority of the more than 400 people arrested since then are American citizens who came from outside the county, Dannels said.
Dannels said the disregard for human life displayed by the cartels is the reason why members of Congress need to step up and help.
“It pisses me off because we’ve been talking about this for almost three years. I’ve testified in front of Congress. I’ve met with anybody that’ll listen to us and every day that goes by I see another tragedy,” said Dannels.
The number of migrants apprehended by U.S. immigration agents after crossing the southern border illegally soared to near-record levels in September.
The influx has strained sanctuary city and state resources, prompting local Democratic leaders to openly criticize the Biden administration and call for federal action.
NYPD: Brian Dowling, 18, charged with murder in deadly stabbing of NYC activist Ryan Carson
Carson and his girlfriend were seen on surveillance video around 4 a.m. Monday sitting at a bus stop on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Police said a man walked by them, with no interaction. Moments later, as the couple started walking, the man kicked over several moped scooters on the sidewalk, then turned to Carson and said, “What are you looking at?”
That’s when the suspect pulled out a knife and swung at him, police said. Carson is seen tripping and falling to the ground, and the attacker stabs him three times, piercing his heart.
“As Mr. Carson lay dying on the sidewalk, the male with the knife kicks him in the chest, threatens to stab the woman companion and spits in her face,” Kenny said.
Tucker Carlson Takes On ‘Trans, Inc’
Tucker Carlson talked to Chris Moritz about genital mutilation and the transgender issue.
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Six IDF-BP troops wounded in fierce J&S clashes; Turkey strikes Syria & Iraq TV7 Israel News 05.10
1) Six Border Police and IDF Special Operators sustained separate degrees of wounds – during separate counter-terror operations in the West Bank districts of Judea and Samaria.
2) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts that Israel holds Iran responsible for the latest uptick in terror activity throughout Judea and Samaria.
3) The United States reportedly intercepted a Turkish attack drone – as Ankara launches an aerial operation against PKK terror elements, in retribution for a suicide bombing earlier this week.
US to transfer seized Iranian weapons to Ukraine
Floods in Himalayan Lake Claim 14 Lives, Over 100 Missing
The Lhonak Lake in Sikkim state burst its banks on Wednesday causing major flooding, which authorities said had impacted the lives of 22,000 people. It is the latest deadly weather event in South Asia’s mountains being blamed on climate change.
The weather department said Sikkim received 101 mm (4 inches) of rain in the first five days of October, more than double normal levels, triggering floods worse than one in October 1968 in which an estimated 1,000 people were killed.
The latest flooding was exacerbated by water released from state-run NHPC’s Teesta V dam, local officials said.
Four of the dam’s gates had been washed away and it was not clear why they had not been opened in time, a government source told Reuters.
Horrific Scenes Of Death, Destruction In Ukraine’s Northeast Following Russian Attack
Ukrainian officials said dozens of people were killed in a Russian attack that struck a cafe that was holding a wake service in a village in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, with emergency crews scrambling through the debris in search of more casualties.
Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Synehubov said that a cafe and a shop had been hit at around lunchtime in the village of Hroza in the Kupyansk district of Kharkiv and that many civilians had been there at the time.
The attack was the deadliest in the Kharkiv region since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than 19 months ago, a spokesperson for the Kharkiv regional military administration told Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne.
US Shoots Down Armed Turkish Drone in Syria Flying Near American Troops
The official also said the shootdown was ordered after more than a dozen calls to Turkish military officials stating U.S. forces were on the ground in the area and the U.S. military would engage in self-defense if the drone didn’t leave the area.
The other official said the drone had been flying in an “unsafe” and “unsychronized” manner. Typically, the U.S. and Turkish militaries, which are NATO allies, work in close coordination in conducting air maneuvers. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident before an announcement.
The U.S. has about 900 troops in Syria conducting missions to counter Islamic State group militants.
The incident follows intensified airstrikes Wednesday by Turkey in Iraq and Syria against Kurdish militant targets following a suicide attack outside Turkey’s interior ministry building earlier this week.
Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says
In a speech at a forum of foreign policy experts, Putin announced that Russia has effectively completed the development of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile and will work on putting them into production.
“We conducted the last successful test of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile,” he said without elaborating. His statement was the first announcement of a successful test of the Burevestnik, which translates as “Storm Petrel.” It was first mentioned by Putin in 2018.
It is believed to be able to carry a nuclear warhead or a conventional one, and potentially could stay aloft for a much longer time than other missiles and cover much more distance, thanks to nuclear propulsion.
When Putin first revealed that Russia was working on the weapon in his 2018 state-of-the-nation address, he claimed it would have an unlimited range, allowing it to circle the globe undetected by missile defense systems.
It now costs $106,000 to be allowed to buy a car in the world’s most expensive city for drivers
Singapore has a 10-year “certificate of entitlement” (COE) system, introduced in 1990, to control the number of vehicles in the small country, which is home to 5.9 million people and can be driven across in less than an hour.
The quota, offered through a bidding process, has made it the most expensive city in the world to buy a car, with the COE for a large car more than quadrupling from 2020 prices on Wednesday to a record $106,376.68.
Including COE, registration fees and taxes, a new standard Toyota Camry Hybrid currently costs $183,000 in Singapore, compared with $28,855 in the U.S. The cost of buying that Camry in Singapore is about double the price of a small, government-subsidised flat in the country.
Sweden’s crime crisis with migrants is due to their ‘failure to assimilate’
Basic rules of wokeness is it never goes in ‘both directions’: Rowan Dean
This comes after a concert in Germany was cancelled due to Tom Fronza, who is white, playing a didgeridoo with his band.
“So of course a white person can’t play a didgeridoo, but of course, a black or non-white person of any description can play any instrument whatsoever,” Mr Dean said.
Politics.
Appropriations Bill Institutes Pro-Life Protections for PEPFAR
PEPFAR is one the world’s largest foreign aid programs, focusing on treating and preventing AIDS in Africa and other impoverished regions. First passed in 2003 under President Bush, it has enjoyed strong bipartisan support for 20 years because it steered clear of controversial issues like abortion.
“Unfortunately, the Biden administration’s all-of-government push on abortion has undermined PEPFAR’s laudable goal,” Quena Gonzalez, senior director of Government Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. “The program has been turned into a slush fund to lobby foreign governments and push other countries to adopt radical, anti-life and anti-family ideologies.”
In September 2022, the Biden administration published a document “Reimagining PEPFAR’s Strategic Direction,” which detailed “plans to push abortion, sexual orientation, and gender identity on other nations with traditional moral values,” Gonzalez said.
With its authorization set to expire by the end of September, conservatives have warned that stronger pro-lifer protections were needed.
African leaders are also concerned. In a June 6 letter, 131 Africans — government officials, faith leaders, and NGO workers — asked congressional leaders to make sure “that PEPFAR remain true to its original mission and respect our norms, traditions, and values.”
Support for third political party rises
According to a new Gallup poll, 63% of surveyed Americans say both the Democratic and Republican parties do a “poor job” and that a third political party is needed. That marks only the third time more than 60% of Americans have wanted a third party since Gallup began tracking the data.
“This represents a seven-percentage-point increase from a year ago and is the highest since Gallup first asked the question in 2003,” Gallup said. “However, the current measure is not meaningfully different from the prior highs of 61% in 2017 and 62% in 2021, shortly after the January 2021 Capitol Hill riots.”
Americans have become increasingly divided in recent years, with both parties becoming more extreme to satiate their respective bases. Even still, Americans are dissatisfied with their parties.
The data comes as a broad spectrum of issues in America have become worse in recent years.
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Biden administration waives 26 federal laws for 20-mile border wall
President Joe Biden’s administration is now adopting a practice used during Donald Trump’s presidency. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the construction of a wall, installing roughly 20 miles of barriers on the U.S. border with Mexico in South Texas.
10 Ways Democrats Are Already Rigging The 2024 Election
Now, as the country hurtles towards another intense presidential election, Democrats are once again putting their feet on the electoral scale to rig the 2024 contest in their favor.
2. Protecting Joe Biden
From the moment mountains of evidence began piling up, implicating Biden in playing a major role in his family’s international influence-peddling scheme, Democrats have done all they can to hide, excuse, and obfuscate the massive scandal surrounding the sitting president. With help from the DOJ — which almost got away with offering Biden’s son, Hunter, a sweetheart plea agreement to evade future criminal charges and has routinely hindered investigative efforts into the Bidens — these acts represent a clear attempt by Democrats to hide damning information about the sitting president from the American public ahead of the 2024 election.
4. Zuckbucks 2.0
While 25 states passed legislation banning or restricting the use of “Zuckbucks” in elections, that hasn’t stopped nonprofits like the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) — one of the Zuckerberg-funded groups that meddled in the 2020 election — from attempting to replicate their 2020 strategy for future elections.
Last year, CTCL and other left-wing groups launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, an $80 million venture designed to “systematically influence every aspect of election administration” and advance Democrat-backed voting policies in local election offices. Through the use of “scholarships” and low entrance fees, the coalition seeks to make the 2020 private hijacking of election offices look like child’s play.
This liberal AG is trying to run Trump out of the state: Turley
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley joins ‘The Brian Kilmeade Show’ to discuss former President Trump’s civil fraud trial.
Trump Campaign Reports Over $45 Million Raised in Q
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Trump’s presidential campaign announced on Wednesday evening that it raked in a whopping $45.5 million during the July-September third quarter of 2023 fundraising.
The former president’s political team also reported over $37.5 million in their campaign coffers as of the end of last month.
Trump’s fundraising the past three months is up from the roughly $35 million he brought in during the April-June second quarter of fundraising, which nearly doubled his haul from the first quarter of the year.
“The Q3 numbers are even more impressive considering the Summer months are usually when most campaigns experience lagging fundraising support. President Trump and his campaign have completely shattered that notion,” the campaign touted in an email release.
With three and a half months to go until the Iowa caucuses kick off the 2024 GOP presidential nominating calendar, Trump is leagues ahead of his large field of challengers in the latest national polling and crucial early state surveys.
Trump Says Biden Move to Build Wall is Too Late: What About The ‘Terrorists That Have Already Come Into Our Country?’
“Biden sees our country is being invaded,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “What is he going to do about the 15 million people from prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums, and terrorists that have already come into our country?”
Trump also blamed the sitting president for the influx of migrants at the southern border — border patrol apprehensions hit the highest number to date this September, while cities like New York City are facing an influx of migrants with insufficient housing and processing in place.
Trump’s comments come after the Biden administration waived 26 federal laws in Starr County, Texas, in preparation for the construction of fencing, barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors on the southwest border.
Biden’s Corrupt DOJ Is Creating a Legal Quagmire for Trump
The attacks are incessant and endless. As national polls show Trump beating Biden in a head-to-head presidential matchup, Biden’s corrupt DOJ and Democrat operatives are submerging the former president in legal quicksand.
But, as they fire legal broadsides in an attempt to sink his campaign are they only succeeding in making him stronger?
Congress preaches spending cuts while allowing its own budget to explode by 38% since 2014
While many lawmakers have preached for years the need for federal spending cuts, the amount of taxpayer money that Congress spends on its own operations has swelled 38% since FY2014 from $4.3 billion to $6.9 billion this year, according to a Just the News review of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on annual federal budgets.
The funding under the legislative branch also covers travel expenses for top congressional leaders such as the speaker of the House and Senate majority leader as well as salaries for members of Congress and congressional staffers.
In FY2023, the largest jump in legislative branch appropriations took place since FY2014, with Congress spending $6.9 billion, which was 16.5% more than the previous fiscal year.
President Biden requested $7.134 billion for legislative branch operations funding in FY2024, according to CRS, which would be a 3.4% jump if enacted.
The last time Congress reduced the legislative branch operations budget was in FY2012 when it was cut by 5.2%. Congress kept the same budget size for the legislative branch in FY2013.
Calif. Republicans Vote to Keep Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage Platform
The Party’s pro-life stance would have been weakened by the removal of the statement that life begins at conception and removal of references to late-term and elective abortions. The platform proposal was submitted earlier this year, with support from the pro-LGBT organization Log Cabin Republicans, and was tacitly approved by party leadership in the state, with many arguing a less conservative approach would broaden the party’s appeal to leftist voters. A closed-door vote on Saturday resulted in an overwhelming rejection of the new platform proposal, without even debate on proposed amendments.
Speaking to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins Monday night on “Washington Watch,” Real Impact Executive Director Gina Gleason, who played a key role in mobilizing voters to reject the platform proposal, said,
“We expected to lose because the party leadership and all the delegates were against us. They don’t believe in upholding and defending life and … God’s design for marriage. But when we got wind of what they were doing, we got organized.” She added, “When Christians know what is taking place in their government or in their local community, they step up and they’re starting to be really involved and make some impactful changes.”
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