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Zion Teasley, the man who stabbed Phoenix hiker Lauren Heike 15 times on a trail in 2023, has pleaded guilty to her murder in a deal that takes the death penalty off the table and sends him to prison for life.
Justice Samuel Alito said during an interview on Sunday that he has an opinion about who leaked the draft of the Supreme Court opinion that overturned Roe v.
Two people detained outside a Chicago-area ICE facility last year are suing podcaster Benny Johnson, claiming he defamed them by calling them left-wing terrorists who attacked federal officers during a ride-along with Homeland Security officials.
The Baltimore Rock Opera Society has fired its new executive director, Kelly Carnes, after a video showed the white arts executive wearing cornrows at the Burning Man festival, and leftists complained that the hairstyle was cultural appropriation.
Chris Rock compared “wokeness” to the Salem witch trials in a New York Times interview published Saturday, calling the line “half a joke” and arguing that once the hunt became an institution, it had to start making accusations up.
A New Jersey man is suing his former community college, a business professor, and a dean, claiming he was branded a “racist” in front of his classmates and pushed out of an online course because of a “Trump 2020” flag that was hanging on his bedroom wall during a Zoom class.
A little-known lab animal dealer has been quietly feeding cats into taxpayer-funded virus experiments at major universities, according to records obtained by the watchdog White Coat Waste.
A 24-year-old Guatemalan illegal alien was arrested twice over just 18 hours in Putnam County, New York.
President Donald Trump is urging Americans to treat the 2026 midterms as if his own name were on the ballot and repeated his pledge to send $5,000 to every adult citizen if Republicans keep the House and the Senate.
Newly unsealed police bodycam footage shows the moment Altoona officers found Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel.
Christa Pike’s attorneys said Thursday that she is critically ill in a Nashville hospital, still unconscious and unable to communicate, but not in a coma, after the state failed to kill her with two doses of a lethal injection the night before.
Attorneys for Christa Pike said Wednesday night that Tennessee executioners administered two syringes of pentobarbital and that she was still alive and snoring inside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said a migrant caravan walking north from Honduras has “zero chance” of making it into the United States.
The NFL has told the Department of Homeland Security to take down a social media video that used Hall of Fame safety Brian Dawkins’ hardest hits as a reply to a report of a migrant caravan heading toward the southern border.
Vice President JD Vance posted a video on Sunday defending the administration’s H-1B fight.
President Donald Trump shared at least 14 posts blasting RINO Rep.
The FBI has reportedly pulled two veteran counterterrorism supervisors out of the Washington Field Office after their team decided harassing calls to Katie Miller, wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, did not meet the bureau’s bar for a full investigation.
Former NBA first-round pick Royce White said Rep.
Joe Biden accepted an award at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in his hometown Thursday night.
A maintenance worker at a Los Angeles senior facility pulled a handgun from a shopping cart and opened fire inside the home for the elderly on Monday.
Tennessee is preparing an all-female team to give a lethal injection to Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday, a request her lawyers made due to decades of sexual abuse and PTSD.
Colombia’s new right-wing president brought a wanted narcotics commander to an American plane himself.
Greek firefighters pulled six bodies from a collapsed house in Athens’ Plaka district on Saturday, including four American tourists who were supposed to fly home just hours later.
Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon called Gov.
PETA has been telling its donors that the “lights are out” on Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone’s cruel infant-monkey lab, but federal records say otherwise.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sued the Indiana High School Athletic Association this week to kill a bylaw that locks two of 19 board seats for people the association calls “qualified minorities.” The bylaws define that phrase as “an individual other than a white male or female.” Nominating petitions for those seats have to verify the candidate’s race.
Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken, a Democrat running for reelection in a majority-Latino city, is under review after her chief of staff claimed she repeatedly called her a “dirty Mexican” and grilled her about being a lesbian.
A large number of X users with X Money turned on are waking up to unsolicited cash in their accounts, sometimes into the thousands and tens of thousands, thanks to a viral new trend on the platform.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones joined 21 other Democratic attorneys general in a letter demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services drop a proposed $103,265 charge on H-1B petitions filed by employers who are not cap-exempt.
The White House has removed CNN’s access to Air Force One for President Donald Trump’s Saturday flight to Knoxville, where he is scheduled to attend Tennessee-Texas, and replaced it with Real America’s Voice and Lindell TV.
A Lanzarote emergency official has said human traffickers threw a two-year-old boy into the Atlantic, killing him, because they were annoyed with him crying during a migrant crossing to the Canary Islands.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway opened a consumer-fraud investigation Friday into ActBlue, the liberal fundraising machine that processed nearly $1.8 billion in 2025 for about 23,000 Democratic candidates and progressive groups.
In a strange segment on CNN, Georgetown constitutional law professor Michele Goodwin claimed it is “not a stretch” to compare President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House to the January 6 protest that the media has spent years whining about.
New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act has been in effect for a little over a month, and the state still will not say how many people used it.
Actresses Hannah Einbinder and Susan Sarandon were taken into custody Thursday outside the United Nations in New York during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the General Assembly.
Sunny Hostin bragged on Tuesday’s episode of The View that she was the lone holdout who kept Daniel Rakowitz, the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park, out of prison, but it appears that she lied.
Jamar Marquis Goff, the 23-year-old foster son of “Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond, was already in the system for biting a detention officer last year and has now been arrested for slapping a cop and carrying meth.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has told Sarasota County Schools to fire Pine View history teacher Liz Ballard and revoke her educator certificate over reports that she harassed an eighth-grade boy over conservative views, used him as the class punching bag after his parents told her to stop, called him a “misogynist,” spread rumors around campus, and disparaged his father.
The animal testing watchdog organization White Coat Waste has published a new report showing that Oak Hill Genetics, an Ewing, Illinois, breeder and the nation’s second-largest lab-dog supplier, shipped 1,518 hound-mix dogs to 44 laboratories between January 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026.
Sunny Hostin shocked her co-hosts on Tuesday’s episode of The View by revealing that she was the holdout juror who stopped a Manhattan jury from convicting Daniel Rakowitz, the East Village killer cannibal known as the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.
An international team working the boat-shaped Durupınar formation near Mount Ararat says permitted core drilling has begun both inside and outside the outline of what some believe is Noah’s Ark, and that a hole inside the area that would be the hull stopped when the bit broke on a layer harder than limestone.
A Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree “endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death” after she killed her infant daughter by putting her in the oven.
ICE arrested Ho-Yin Mo, a field representative for California Assemblywoman Catherine Stefani and former news anchor, at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday.
An Ontario judge has acquitted a Toronto man who threw a seven-year-old girl to the ground, punched her, and choked her in her family’s driveway after he argued the attack was involuntary because he was in a cannabis-induced psychosis.
White Coat Waste has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services turn over records on animal experiments and the virus smuggling scandal at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, the NIAID campus the group has nicknamed “Wuhan West.” The taxpayer and animal welfare watchdog filed the complaint on September 15 in U.S.
Rose Friedman, the NPR editor and reporter who helped build the network’s books and culture desk for 15 years, passed away from cancer on Thursday at her home in New York City at 38 years old.
Minnesota state agents arrested ICE officer Christian Castro in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday, eight months after he shot and injured a Venezuelan man through a door during an immigration enforcement operation in January.
Judy Markey, the longtime co-host of WGN’s “Kathy and Judy Show,” died Friday at a medical-aid-in-dying clinic in Switzerland.
Democrat Massachusetts Gov.
The Department of Homeland Security says the United States has now gone 16 consecutive months without releasing a single illegal alien into the country at the border.
Charlie Kirk’s family has taken the first step towards filing a lawsuit against Utah Valley University and the State of Utah for the security failures they say left him exposed to a rooftop assassin.
The family of the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial says their lives have been turned upside down since the case ended in a mistrial.
The Food and Drug Administration is buying up young baboons with taxpayer dollars so researchers can infect and kill them for research in Maryland.
Lilly Wachowski, the transgender co-director of The Matrix, has decided that millions of people who still enjoy Harry Potter are aiding a “trans genocide.” In an interview with Variety published this week, the biological male filmmaker said J.K.
A self-described “ungendered activist” told a packed room of socialists that popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are “fascistic” because they exist in a world “fixated on genociding fat people.” The remarks came during a panel at the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago, a four-day gathering organized by Haymarket Books and attended by more than 3,000 activists, academics, and Democratic Socialists of America members over Labor Day weekend.
A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.
Netflix’s UK and Ireland account posted two stills from season two of The Gentlemen on September 10 with the caption “Nearly did himself a neck injury.” September 10, of course, was the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University, where he was shot in the neck on stage.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have announced additional attendees for the Clinton Global Initiative’s September 22–23 meeting in New York, timed to coincide with U.N.
