A 19-year-old Venezuelan migrant shot two cops early Monday when they tried to stop on a motorized scooter, according to police and sources.
The officers had tried to pull over the teen, identified as Bernardo Castro Mata, after spotting him driving the wrong way down a street at 89th St. and 23rd Ave. in Elmhurst at about 1:40 a.m., police said.
An early morning shooting in Ohio kills 1 and injures 24 others
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning shooting on a street in Ohio killed one person and injured 24 others, some critically, police said.
Police said shots were reported early Sunday just after midnight in the city of Akron, where multiple victims struck by gunfire were reported. Local hospitals told emergency dispatchers soon afterward that people were arriving in their emergency departments with gunshot wounds.
Also fun fact. Look at the name of the store. We all know what this was and the media will sweep this one up cause of it. pic.twitter.com/1EkKDDvvCA
— El Taco Loco (@oletaco0126) June 2, 2024
When Tyler Thompson told his mother he was going on holiday to South Africa with his best friend, Marcel Malanga, she could not help but worry. Tyler was 21, and ready to leave his home in the prosperous suburbs of Salt Lake City to see the world. But it would be his first trip abroad, and neither of his parents had been to Africa.
A few things made her feel calmer: Marcel’s father, Christian, who lived in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, had said he would look after the two young men, who had been on the high school football team together. He even paid for Tyler’s flights. In return, Tyler, who had been learning how to pilot drones in his spare time, would help Christian map gold mines that he ran in southern Africa. Tyler thought it would look good on his CV.
Since at least as far back as 1917, when the U.S. unwisely intervened in World War I to rescue the Western Allies, the major European nations have grown accustomed to American largesse. Americans have played the role of overindulgent parents, and the Europeans have responded as would entitled children who both demand handouts and then resent the parents who supply them.
A large proportion of Europeans have negative opinions of the U.S. They consider us arrogant and selfish. As a result, we have been labeled as “the Ugly Americans” for decades.
The guilty verdict against Trump is a crucial watershed moment for America, politically, constitutionally, and morally.
On Thursday, May 30th, a jury of 12 New Yorkers erased the last distinctive line between Biden’s America and Putin’s Russia. With their verdict against Donald Trump, finding him guilty on 34 counts of forging business records, they verified that the Democrat party—the party of the sitting president—can organize a trial with its party operatives as judge and prosecutor, and get their political opponent found guilty.
The judge in the case, Juan Merchan, is an entrenched Democrat who has been selected to prosecute more Republicans than just Donald Trump. In the America that we all knew before Biden came into office, judges were selected randomly; from now on, ‘random’ means a Democrat when the defendant is a Republican.
Four-year-old X Æ A-12 Musk has a new playmate, and it’s Barron Trump, son of the former President, the Wall Street Journal reports. The touching detail embroiders speculation (it’s an “exclusive”) that Elon Musk is being considered for a presidential advisory role, should Trump regain the White House. The Journal reports that Trump and Musk are already close enough to talk “several times a month”, so the prospect is not so far-fetched.
The Biden Administration may have set a new record in appeasing the Iranian regime, which is, according to the annual US Terrorism Report, the world’s “Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism” and a flagrant violator of human rights.
While people in Iran were celebrating the death of the tyrannical President Ebrahim Raisi, whom they called “the Butcher of Tehran,” the Biden Administration was sending condolences to the Iranian regime — a move that sparked outrage and disbelief among those who champion democratic values and human rights (here, here and here).
The Biden administration was sending condolences to a regime that not only brutalizes its citizens, but that has also been using its militias and proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad — to blow up peace throughout the Middle East, and sending missiles and drones to Russia — after it illegally seized Georgia and Crimea — to illegally attack Ukraine.
Activist investor Ari Nessel recently wrote a piece in The Hill criticizing Florida for banning the sale and distribution of lab-grown meat. Nessel’s position is understandable, given that his company has invested in lab-grown seafood. But in banning or restricting lab-grown meat, states are simply responding to the lack of long-term safety studies and widespread consumer skepticism of this novel — and experimental — food product.
Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in a trial in Manhattan on May 30. Democrats are singing with joy, but it was a truly sad day for America.
This was a prosecution that never would have been brought had the defendant not been Donald Trump, and had Trump not run for reelection in 2024. Rather than prosecuting an obvious crime, prosecutors set out to prosecute a political opponent. And to do so, they invented a criminal theory to pursue.
His Fraudulency Joe Biden is struggling with celebrity endorsements, according to CNN — a basement-rated, far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and violence — especially with Young Hollywood’s Jew haters …
On GB News @MartinDaubney introduces @StevenEdginton's report on Muslim dominated Hamtramck, Detroit. They've banned LGBT flags, changed public animal sacrifice laws & the call to prayer.@Ayaan Hirsi Ali notes violence, the subjugation of women, 7 year old girls in burkas. pic.twitter.com/VFH1VqHrq8
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) May 31, 2024
This is next door to Windsor.
“‘With Trudeau, I have to get out of here,’ that’s what people tell me. They say to me, ‘Marco, who do I have to talk to to get out of here?'”
Tens of thousands of Canadians are emigrating to the United States and the number of people packing up and moving south has hit a level not seen in 10 years or more, according to data compiled by CBC News.
There’s nothing new about Canadians moving south of the 49th parallel for love, work or warmer weather, but the latest figures from the American Community Survey (ACS) suggest it’s now happening at a much higher rate than the historical average.
Christopher Lasch’s forgotten book foresaw America’s malaise
Over the past half-decade, few intellectuals have undergone a renaissance like Christopher Lasch — and few renaissances have been quite as startlingly heterodox. After the 2016 election, Lasch’s posthumous 1994 book Revolt of the Elites was cited as a key influence on the Right-populist strategist Steve Bannon. Shortly after that, a new edition of the author’s 1979 bestseller The Culture of Narcissism appeared with an introduction by liberal pundit E.J. Dionne that applied Lasch’s ideas to the pathologies of Bannon’s erstwhile boss, then-president Donald Trump.
Joe Biden was left isolated in his refusal to allow US weapons to be fired into Russia by Ukraine, after France and Germany relaxed their rules.
Emmanuel Macron said Ukraine is free to use its high powered weapons – which include French versions of Storm Shadows – to fire over the border.
He made the announcement alongside Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, while holding up a map showing Russian bases being used to attack Ukraine in the latest offensives.
Footing the lion’s share of the bill but not calling the shots is a bad look for Biden.
The U.S. Department of Justice says two men are facing human smuggling charges in Seattle for their alleged role in what it calls a dangerous scheme to transport people out of B.C. and across the border on freight trains.
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Tessa Gorman says 45-year-old Jesus Ortiz-Plata of Oregon and 35-year-old Juan Pablo Cuellar Medina of Washington were arrested last week, along with three non-citizens who were allegedly smuggled out of Canada.
