Author: HP McLovincraft

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Hero Off-Duty FBI Agent Shoots Dead a Crazed Venezuelan Illegal Alien Who Was Firing into Chicago Homeless Camp, Previously Caught and Released by Biden

An off-duty FBI agent driving home in Chicago on Monday night stopped and fatally shot a 27-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien who was firing a gun toward people in a homeless encampment, according to multiple federal law enforcement sources who spoke to Fox News.

The alien, identified as Oscar D. Corrales, had been caught at the southern border in October 2023 and released into the United States under the Biden administration.

Corrales also had a prior arrest in California but was reportedly released by law enforcement despite an ICE detainer.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reports:

Multiple federal law enforcement sources tell Fox News that the man who was shot and killed by an off-duty FBI agent in Chicago last night was a Venezuelan illegal alien who was seen shooting into a homeless encampment. Per sources, the FBI agent was driving alone when he saw 27-year-old OSCAR D. CORRALES shooting at people in the encampment, and the agent stopped and shot CORRALES, killing him.

Fox is told CORRALES was previously caught and released at the southern border by the Biden administration in October 2023, and he has a previous arrest in California in which he was released from custody with an ICE detainer ignored.

Corrales sustained multiple gunshot wounds, including to both legs, his chest, and right flank.

He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital less than an hour after the shooting.

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Arrested Assistant Principal Resigns After 12-Year-Olds’ Softball Brawl That Left A Dad Unconscious

A youth softball game in Sugar Land, Texas, turned violent Saturday, and a father is still in the hospital with a broken jaw, a fractured skull and three brain bleeds, according to his attorney. Police arrested Kiarious Marshun Hall and his wife, Jazmine Hall, after the fight at Imperial Park during a game between two 12-year-old select teams, ABC13 reported.

Charging documents say the dispute began over Hall’s behavior while the opposing team was at bat. Hall told officers another man from the Timbergrove Thunder approached him and said he “couldn’t cheer before the players pitched the ball.” Hall’s daughter plays for Illusions Gold 2033.

Investigators say witness video shows what happened next. Court records state Hall struck another father in the face with a metal water bottle, knocking him unconscious, then swung the bottle at a second man before the confrontation turned into a brawl. Hall claimed the men had “elbowed and poked his chest” and that he acted in self-defense, but court documents say the video does not show that.

The second man, grandfather Gary Greaser, told ABC13 he stepped in to disarm Hall after seeing the first man struck. “I said ‘You can’t do this.’ I took him, I wanted to disarm the guy, because he’s going to do it to somebody else,” Greaser said. Court records say video allegedly shows Jazmine Hall then running into the fight and pushing Greaser, and both falling into nearby bushes before bystanders separated everyone. Greaser needed seven stitches in his chin, suffered extensive scrapes and has a broken hip. “It’s medieval times like we’re going to smash each other in the head with something,” he said.

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Investigation Launched Into Federal Judge Who Hurled Racial Insults at Lawyer Over His “White Mediocrity” – Said He Was Intimidated by “Black Excellence”

A Texas-based federal judge’s abuse and racial insults toward a lawyer have sparked a judicial investigation.

A lawyer filed a misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee, for berating him with racial insults during an April 2026 hearing in Dallas.

Bloomberg Law reviewed court transcripts that revealed Judge Brown directed shockingly abusive racial insults toward attorney Ezra Young.

Ezra Young represented a black female professor who was suing over the denial of tenure.

During the hearing, Judge Brown, a black and Native American woman, berated Young and repeatedly referred to him as a white man even though he is Latino.

“I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?,” Brown said, according to the transcript obtained by Bloomberg Law. “You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?”

“I’m not White, Your Honor,” Young replied, explaining that he is Latino.

“Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?” Judge Brown said.

Young told the judge that he is a “fair-skinned” Latino. Judge Brown insisted that Young had “White privilege.”

“You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York,” Judge Brown later said, according to Bloomberg.

Ezra Young said he believes Judge Brown could be suffering from a mental health condition. Judge Brown was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Judge Brown responded to Ezra Young’s complaint in a 76-page response and defended her racial attacks.

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New Evidence Allegedly Ties Trump to 11 Sexual Assaults Related to Epstein

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice.

The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, with most cases happening in the 1990s.

The accounts were pulled together through interviews conducted by the committee, as well as FBI records and the portion of the Epstein files that have been released; the evidence was cross-referenced for timelines and corroboration of testimony between alleged victims. In all, the evidence sharply contrasts Trump’s claims that he was merely an acquaintance of Epstein, and instead paints a picture of Trump as a serial sexual assault perpetrator who collaborated closely with Epstein to find and traffic victims.

“These women have spoken to investigators and, in some cases, testified under oath, yet Trump’s Justice Department has shut down investigations, deliberately withheld evidence and, through Todd Blanche, prevented Ghislaine Maxwell from discussing a survivor whose account implicated Trump,” said the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland). “Trump’s Justice Department appears to be covering up these crimes to protect the President.”

Five women said that Trump raped or assaulted them while Epstein was present or was in his company, as detailed in the report. The report also reveals, for the first time, Trump’s alleged rape of Beatrice Keul, who has previously said that Trump groped her.

Keul said that she was recruited to attend the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant in November 1993, and was approached by Trump at an event in the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time. She says that her passport was taken away when she entered the pageant, and that Trump promised her favors, including saying that then-modelling agent Paolo Zampolli — who was recently fired from a high-level position within the State Department — would “take care” of obtaining a visa for Keul, who is from Switzerland.

The report notes that Trump promised Keul that he could get her admitted to New York University — a promise that Epstein often made “to lure in and then control his victims,” the report says.

After that conversation, Epstein approached her, introducing himself as “Don’s best friend.” As Trump looked on, Epstein also made promises to Keul, including that he would arrange for her to travel to Mar-a-Lago for a party. “You know I can take care of you. We organize many parties with Don,” Epstein allegedly told her. Keul says that Trump raped her later that day, after sending an associate to invite her to a hotel room for a meeting; she described the rape as “brutal.”

The report corroborates Keul and Trump’s meeting with accounts from other women who say that Trump and Epstein used the pageant as a “hunting ground” to prey upon women.

The Democrats also collate other assaults committed by Trump in relation to Epstein, including numerous occasions where Trump allegedly forcibly kissed or groped a girl or woman while Epstein was present, as well as compiled evidence on the alleged assaults of young girls like the case of “Katie Johnson.”

The report establishes several patterns of behavior by Trump and Epstein in relation to victims.

The report notes, for instance, that Trump called Keul several months after the alleged assault to reiterate his offer for favors. Similarly, Trump also sent a postcard to model Stacey Williams, who briefly dated Trump, several months after allegedly assaulting her in Epstein’s presence to invite her to Mar-a-Lago.

The report notes that Epstein had a practice of calling foreign models to visit them in Florida, and that: “Trump and Epstein seemed to share the same playbook for recruiting and abusing women, all the way down to the university they promised admission to and the timing of their follow-up phone calls.”

The Democrats also found that at least five women “related extremely similar facts regarding how Trump and Epstein were fiercely competitive in their pursuits of women and girls, and several related similar instances where Epstein showed off ‘his women’ to Trump but then reprimanded and punished them when Trump initiated or attempted to have sexual contact with them.”

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Canada’s Liberal Government Pushes Bill Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Unwitting Dementia Patients

Canada’s Liberal government has introduced legislation that would allow doctors to euthanize unwitting dementia patients.

The bill, introduced Tuesday, would allow Canadians to request euthanasia in advance, meaning doctors could carry out the procedure after a patient becomes incapable of providing informed consent.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser said the legislation would ensure that people diagnosed with incurable illnesses could have their wishes respected even if their condition deteriorates.

He insisted that the government would introduce safeguards to prevent patients from being pressured into ending their lives.

The proposal marks another expansion of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows the euthanasia of vulnerable and seriously ill patients.

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UK Announces Tax Hikes on Savings and Property Income as Welfare Spending Rises

The left-wing Labour Party government will raise fresh taxes on savings and property income as spending on welfare and foreign subsidies will continue to grow, recently installed Chancellor John Healey told the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Unveiling his autumn budget, Chancellor Healey said that he would be increasing tax rates on income made from savings and property by two per cent starting in April to 24 per cent, 44 per cent, and 49 per cent depending on income level.

“I am increasing the rates of tax on income from property and savings by a further two percentage points from April 2027, with no change to tax on income from dividends and tax on income from employment,” he said. The Chancellor also said that he would be increasing tax on bank profits over £100 million ($133m) from three to six per cent.

Yet, Healey did not take the opportunity to slash welfare spending, which is now predicted to reach £431.3 billion ($574bn) per year by 2031, The Telegraph reported.

This comes as estimates forecast that direct welfare payments to migrants will hit £21 billion ($28.5bn) a year by 2029, and Reform UK has predicted the cumulative lifetime cost of the so-called Boriswave migrants who arrived between 2020 and 2024 will be £622.5 billion ($828bn) for British taxpayers.

In addition to ploughing more money into Britain’s ballooning welfare state — and thus into the pockets of many recently arrived foreigners — Chancellor Healey also announced a further £10 billion ($13.3bn) in British support for Ukraine in economic and military aid

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Clinton Judge Denies DOJ’s Bid to Force California to Remove 20,000 Ballots Mailed to Non-Citizens

US District Court Judge David Carter, a Clinton appointee, denied the Justice Department’s effort to force California to remove 20,000 ballots mailed to non-citizens.

The Justice Department recently sued California and Los Angeles County over 20,000 suspected non-citizens registered to vote who have already been mailed ballots.

First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said that voter rolls were compared to USCIS immigration, Social Security and passport records.

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court denied the government’s appeal because the DOJ improperly skipped over the district court judge so the DOJ was forced to attend a hearing on Tuesday with Judge David Carter.

On Tuesday evening, before he issued his decision, Judge Carter warned First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli and told that it would be wise that “any threats” to California elected employees “cease immediately.”

On Wednesday evening, as expected, Judge Carter denied the Justice Department’s request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO).

The Judge said that the Department of Justice can prosecute the individuals.

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Google Plunges After Ugly Top And Bottom Line Miss, As AI Cannibalizes Search And Ads

Today, ahead of the doubleheader of Mag 7 reports when both Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet report, we wrote in our preview that Microsoft has become the consensus long, while Alphabet “still feels like the consensus funding short across megacaps.” And both have to convince a market that, as Goldman’s Rich Privorotsky put it this morning, now has “eye watering expectations”:

“These really matter. Eye watering expectations… buyside probably closer to Azure growth around high 40s%, Google Cloud around mid 90s%. The question isn’t whether those are good numbers, but whether they can surpass already high expectations… Azure probably needs a guidance raise to be properly supportive. The nuance is capacity… if they miss elevated expectations simply because they cannot bring enough compute online. That’s disappointing for near term revenue but potentially even more bullish for the scarcity premium and future spending. Watch customer concentration, how broad the demand really is and, crucially, the relationship between revenue growth, capex and margins. The market wants evidence that the incremental economics work.“

In other words, a cloud beat is just the price of admission, and the debate tonight is what all that cloud costs, and who pays for it.

Within the Mag 7, Microsoft and Alphabet sit at opposite ends. Goldman’s derivatives desk has Microsoft at 8/10 on its positioning score (the same score Meta carried into its print last week, and we all know how that went). Alphabet, meanwhile, keeps getting sold to pay for everything else. JPMorgan’s TMT trader Brian Heavey wrote this morning that “we continue to see GOOG being used as a source of funds (note there was another negative 3P check ahead of earnings – all pointing to a Search miss).” The stock dropped 10% from its October 13 high into Monday.

There are some signs of a thaw. Goldman’s US desk saw “a buyer of 50k GOOGL 15Jan 360 calls” on Tuesday, and Privorotsky notes that “people have barely begun to re-risk. What we’ve really seen so far is the abatement of supply, rather than meaningful fresh demand.”

Away from Goldman, and focusing on Alphabet, the whole debate fits in one line from JPMorgan’s Mark Schilsky, whose Tech Sketch “Earnings Preview Bonanza” (available to pro subs) frames it as “Street (Consensus) Fighter II: Search vs. Cloud”:

“On the one hand, Google Cloud Revenues are likely to crush this quarter, thanks to TPU sales. On the other hand, Search Revenue growth is expected to miss the Street because the alt data (which is always right!) suggests so… GOOGL is also on a path to where Google Cloud Revenues could be equal to Search Revenues by late 2028. That’s massive! Who thought that was possible 1 year ago? And now we’re debating whether or not Search is going to miss by like -50 bps this quarter. Who cares?!?”

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Writer Walter Kirn: ‘Everything That Happens Before the Election is a Psyop’

You may know Walter Kirn from his appearances on the Greg Gutfeld show, but he is also a pretty well known author. Kirn wrote the 2001 novel ‘Up in the Air’ which was made into a major Hollywood movie in 2009.

During a recent podcast appearance, Kirn suggested that everything that is happening before the midterm election is a psyop (psychological operation).

It is almost impossible to argue against his point. We see it everywhere, in the media, in polling, in speeches from Democrats and their supporters. It is a war for your mind. The left wants you to believe that a Democrat victory is inevitable.

Transcript via Jay Plemons:

Walter Kirn: Everything that happens before the election is a PSYOP.

KIRN: “Everything that happens, the polling, the rumors, the word of mouth, the social media posts, the trends, the little anecdotes that get repeated and go viral. Everything is subordinate to that election. And none of it is true in and of itself. It’s all instrumental.”

“Not only don’t I trust the polls, I do trust the polls. I trust them to be nudging people in all the ways that polls can for all the people who can pay for polls.”

“The news now is all about behavior modification. It’s not about truth.”

For the next week, every poll or viral story you see, don’t ask if it’s true. Ask what it’s trying to get you to do.

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Savannah River Site Lifts Emergency After Lab Fire And Reported Radiological Release

A fire in a single room at the Savannah River National Laboratory triggered a Site Area Emergency at the US Department of Energy complex on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River from Augusta late this Wednesday. Site officials reported the fire had been brought under control, with no contamination reported outside the affected building, and said the operational emergency was over by 9:18 p.m.

WRDW reported that the site described an “unfiltered ground-level radiological release” from that room. WRDW reports that dispatch traffic and an SRS release have found no indication of contamination beyond the site boundary. Officials at the lab have told the station that there is no danger to the public outside of the reservation.

SRS closed entrance barricades to incoming traffic. Rail, river, and air traffic was also temporarily restricted. Employees not involved in the incident were told to go to shelter. Workers in the lab, located in Area A, were kept behind the barricades for approximately 30 minutes before some were allowed to leave, WRDW reported. A temporary flight restriction (TFR) was put in place by the FAA until midnight Thursday. The restriction is for a 15-nm radius around SRS with a flight ceiling of 10,000 feet.

All-clear posted on the SRS status page at 9:18 p.m. There are no operational emergencies or scheduled delays. Incoming and outgoing traffic has resumed at all barricades, and oncoming shift workers should report to work as usual.

Savannah River Site is a 310-square-mile reservation in Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale counties on the SC side of the Savannah River which forms the Georgia line. Augusta sits on the Georgia side. The complex is home to the Department of Energy’s national laboratory conducting nuclear materials research in support of its environmental cleanup and nuclear waste management mission as well as the production of tritium in support of the country’s nuclear deterrent. The site was built in the early 1950s to produce plutonium and later tritium for nuclear weapons, WRDW reported.

SRS has not yet issued a follow-up press release to describe the extent of radioactive material release from the single room where the fire occurred. Their initial release states that the fire has been extinguished and that there has been no report of contamination outside of the lab building. The operational emergency ended Wednesday night.

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