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Kurt Cobain’s death investigation takes new turn over cop’s shocking claim casting doubt on suicide

Seattle’s ex-top cop admitted there were contradictions between key evidence and what was concluded in the police report on the 1994 death of Kurt Cobain, according to bombshell claims being probed by the city.

The city’s Office of Police Accountability recently began probing the shocking allegation: that former Chief Shon Barnes “acknowledged evidence collected” when the Nirvana frontman died was “contradictory” to what had been stated in the original police report, people involved with the investigation told The Post.

Grunge legend Cobain was just 27 when he was found with dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a greenhouse at his Seattle mansion in April 1994. Within hours, investigators declared his death a suicide.

But Barnes allegedly noted during a sit-down with private investigators on the case last year that there was no blood found on the hand that Cobain supposedly shot himself with — a potentially crucial issue with the suicide determination.

Barnes’ shocking admission is alleged to have come during a November 2025 meeting that the then-commish had with “Who Killed Kurt?” — a group of volunteer researchers who believe Cobain’s death was a homicide staged to look like a suicide and have been campaigning for the case to be reopened.

Barnes met with the group’s lead investigator, Michelle Wilkins, and its legal adviser, former local King County senior prosecutor Mark Larson, at cop headquarters to discuss the findings of a peer-reviewed paper which concluded Cobain was murdered.

“Who Killed Kurt?” claims that during the meeting, they discussed forensic evidence which shows an apparent absence of blood on Cobain’s left hand, which the musician is supposed to have used to hold

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Christian concert cancelled due to 100 signatures in a city of 100,000

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to God. So Ezra Levant marked the holiday by taking part in one of his favourite pastimes, reading a court document. This time, it was the City of Moncton’s statement of defence, filed Sept. 22, explaining why it cancelled a Christian worship concert in a public park.

American worship leader Sean Feucht was booked for a free Canadian tour called Let Us Worship. Moncton approved Feucht’s event at Riverfront Park on April 30 and spent three months working out details. The application described “a free, public, live Christian music event” bringing churches together “to pray for the city and the region,” with baptisms.

Two days before the show, a feminist group, a Pride group and others published an open letter with about 100 signatures. The next day, the city cancelled, citing its code of conduct and “evolving safety and security considerations.”

Ezra noted the three-page code says nothing about events, permits or protests, but does ban discrimination based on religion. The concert moved to a camp more than two hours away. Of 1,000 expected, 200 made it. Organizers sued for $50,000 in Charter damages.

The city’s defence says its safety concerns “arose from the potential interaction between attendees and individuals opposed to the event.” The danger, by the city’s own account, was the protesters, so its solution was to cancel the Christians. The filing also says the cancellation was meant “to prevent anticipated hate speech.”

“Nobody had said anything. Nobody was charged with anything,” Ezra said. “That is like a pre-crime arrest for a hymn.” The city even admits it limited freedom of expression, then argues the Christians should pay its legal bills. “That’s a heckler’s veto,” Ezra said.

But the cancellation of Feucht’s events wasn’t limited to just one city — Halifax, Charlottetown, Quebec City, Gatineau and Vaughan all blocked Feucht’s events. Only Alberta let the show go ahead in public.

In Montreal, a church that opened its doors to him was fined $2,500, and someone threw smoke bombs during the service while Rebel News’ Alexa Lavoie was there. A suspect was charged with mischief only after more than a year of her reporting. Rebel News and The Democracy Fund are now funding the church’s court fight.

“Once the government accepts it, the hecklers learn. Every time they threaten, they win,” Ezra said. “Sing if you like. Just not in a park in Moncton. They might cancel you.”

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Crooked, Partisan Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Spotted Wearing ‘No Kings’ Shirt at Anti-Trump Festival as Foo Fighters Dedicate Song to Him

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith turned up at a left-wing political music festival Saturday wearing a “No Kings” shirt.

Smith attended the “Power to the People” festival in Columbia, Maryland, which featured performances from Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters and other anti-Trump activists.

Photos from the event showed Smith wearing a shirt emblazoned with “Bruce Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour No Kings.”

Foo Fighters frontman David Grohl even gave the former prosecutor his own rock-star treatment from the stage.

“This one goes out to my new friend Jack,” Grohl said before the band launched into its hit song “My Hero.”

Smith was appointed special counsel by the Biden Justice Department in 2022 and subsequently brought two federal criminal cases against Trump around the January 6th protests with a view to derailing his presidential campaign.

Both cases were ultimately abandoned after Trump defeated Kamala Harris.

Smith’s festival appearance came just days after he perjured himself while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his investigations into Trump.

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Indianapolis teacher, composer avoids prison time after guilty plea in child sex crimes case

A former Indianapolis teacher and internationally known composer will spend no time in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felonies in a child sex crimes case.

Julian Wachner, 56, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to five counts of possession of child sex abuse material as a Level 5 felony. He also pleaded guilty to one count of felony cocaine possession.

An Indianapolis resident, Wachner was subsequently sentenced to six years of probation and no prison time. As part of his plea deal, Wachner must register as a sex offender and participate in several drug and child abuse prevention programs.

In a statement, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said the plea agreement filed for Wachner was for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Judge Jeffrey Marchal imposed the sentence, opting for no prison time.

“Prosecutors pushed for a sentence harsher than the one opposed [sic],” said MCPO officials.

Cryptocurrency, cocaine and CSAM

Wachner was arrested late last summer by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department after various allegations came out against him. At the time, he had recently served as a fourth-grade math teacher for Invent Learning Hub and was world-renowned for his music compositions.

Court documents released soon after Wachner’s arrest detailed how he used over $800 in cryptocurrency to purchase child sex abuse material on the dark web. After being confronted by police, Wachner reportedly admitted to making “hundreds of purchases.”

A search of Wachner’s home later uncovered an Apple MacBook Pro, a hard drive and a “substantial quantity of cocaine” inside his bedroom closet. On the laptop, investigators reportedly found “dozens” of files containing child sex abuse material.

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Minister quits over offensive rap lyrics as Kinew’s video resurfaces

A sexually explicit rap video from Manitoba NDP Premier Wab Kinew’s past has resurfaced, days after a Nova Scotia minister resigned over his own offensive lyrics.

The 2005 video for “Stank B*tch” features Kinew performing with Winnipeg hip-hop group Dead Indians, years before he entered provincial politics.

In the roughly three-minute video, Kinew and several other performers wear mullet-style wigs while rapping in what appears to be a Winnipeg neighbourhood.

“I don’t give a f*ck about all these other cliques, and I give less than that for these one-night chicks,” Kinew raps.

Other verses contain graphic sexual references, derogatory language about women, and a homophobic slur.

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Dem Candidate, Music Superstar With Sick Sexual History Defended Fellow Musician’s Video In Which He Gropes and Kills Woman

Do Democrats even bother to vet their candidates for sexual depravity in their past, or do they just wing it?

This has been an open question since the Graham Platner disaster, but at least the man who won the Maine Democratic senatorial nomination and then was forced to give it up after a rape allegation topped off a long, sordid, and documented history of perversion gave it up. Bobby Pulido is still running, and while he’s never been accused of rape, the Texas U.S. House candidate’s past is so deeply troubling that he should have bowed out long ago.

In the latest resurfaced problem for the congressional hopeful and Tejano music star, Pulido defended the artist behind a controversial 2016 music video in which the musician tortures, gropes, and then kills an unfaithful girlfriend.

Pulido called it “the decision of the artist and their team” — which, considering the decisions Pulido has made in the past, is probably not the statement he wanted resurfacing.

According to Fox News, the controversy involved Mexican folk singer Gerardo Ortíz and the video for his song “Fuiste Mía,” or “You Were Mine.”

The video initially shows pictures of a happy couple — the singer and another woman. Then, Ortíz discovers her being romantic with another man.

Ortíz pulls a gun out of a cabinet and shoots the man dead. He then corners the cheating girlfriend, handcuffs her, gropes her, and shoves her into a car trunk while choking her.

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Report Suggests Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs May Face Charges Linked to Tupac Shakur’s Murder

Duane Davis – on trial for the murder – reportedly told police Diddy offered him $1 million to kill rival rapper.

30 years after the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur at the height of his fame, Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis is on trial for masterminding the murder.

According to prosecutors, Tupac’s shooting was part of an LA gang war.

And legal sources suggest to The Telegraph that disgraced rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs could face charges linked to the murder.

The Telegraph reported:

“The prosecution’s case hinges on Mr Davis’s own claims to police, in documentary interviews and a memoir, that he sought out Shakur after his nephew was targeted as part of a rival gang feud. They also allege that he was in the white Cadillac from which the fatal bullet was fired, and that he ‘tossed’ the gun to the rapper’s killer.”

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Combining Marijuana And Music Enhances Medical Benefits, Reduces Prescription Drug Use And Boosts Emotions, Government-Funded Study Shows

A new government-funded study is putting quantifiable evidence behind the idea that marijuana use enhances the experience of listening to music. But the new research also suggests that the combination can bolster the therapeutic benefits of cannabis.

The study, published in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research and conducted by researchers at Dalhousie University and other schools in Canada, examined self-reported data from 122 marijuana consumers who completed an exhaustive, 176-question survey.

The findings support one of most anecdotally well-established effects of marijuana use: That is, “most participants viewed the combination of cannabis and music favorably, reporting enhanced relaxation, improved mood, and increased feelings of connection,” the paper says.

Marijuana use was further linked to “altered responses to imposed music in various settings and a heightened likelihood of using music during routine activities,” the research, which was partially funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, determined.

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Grammy-winning Democrat boasted about recruiting sex offender bandmate days before they performed together at school concert

Bobby Pulido, a Democrat and Grammy-award-winning musician performed at a middle school alongside a convicted sex offender bandmate.

Pulido’s close relationship with embattled accordionist Frankie Caballero is under increased scrutiny as his race for Congress heats up.

He is running against Texas Republican Monica De La Cruz in a crucial neck-and-neck race for control of the House of Representatives. Democrats only need to flip four seats to seize the majority.

The Democrat’s appearances with Caballero occurred both before and after he served a four-year sentence for indecent sexual contact with an eight-year-old girl from 2014-2017, the New York Post first reported.

In May 2018, one year after Caballero was released from prison and placed on Texas’ Public Sex Offender Website, Pulido boasted of recruiting Caballero to his band.

Days later, the Tejano singer played with Caballero at a benefit concert for a Texas middle school. Children were present at the concert held at the Richard R Flores Stadium, according to a report from Axios. 

The Daily Mail had previously reported on Pulido’s partnership with Caballero, but the middle school show was unknown until this week.

Caballero reportedly played with Pulido as long ago as the 1990s, when the accordionist faced other charges for sexual assault that were eventually dismissed.

He continued to be featured in Pulido’s shows from time to time until 2021.

His campaign manager, Abel Prado, previously told the Daily Mail in a statement: ‘Bobby extends his deepest sympathies and support to all of the victims involved.

‘Bobby was never made aware of Caballero’s sex offender registration and would never knowingly associate with anyone with that kind of history.’

But Pulido’s campaign has indicated that the singer was aware of some of his accordionist’s problems, acknowledging a struggle with ‘addiction.’

‘When Jimmy Montez management learned of Caballero’s criminal history in 2021 he was immediately fired and that relationship was severed.’ 

The Pulido campaign did not respond to the Daily Mail’s requests for comment about the school concert gig.

A spokesperson told Axios that Republicans planted the ‘nothing story’ and that Pulido is a ‘public figure who has been an open book for over 30 years.’

Comments from a 2019 podcast interview indicate that Pulido knew about his fellow musician’s brushes with the law. 

‘He can do anything with the accordion,’ Pulido said. ‘But get this, they locked him up. I remember when I started out, I went to get him out of jail.’

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Iran Sentences Singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 Lashings for Performing Without a Hijab

An Iranian singer, along with her production team, has been sentenced to 74 lashings for performing a patriotic song without a hijab in a viral video.

In 2024, Parastoo Ahmadi, age 29, livestreamed a video of her singing the patriotic song Az Khoone Javanane Vatan (From the Blood of the Youth of the Homeland) that went viral, generating millions of views. She and several musicians who performed with her was briefly detained before being released, but according to court documents obtained by The Guardian, she received a harsh and brutal punishment by the regime for not wearing a hijab.

According to court documents, the criminal court of Qom province sentenced the artists to flogging, a two-year ban on leaving the country and a two-year ban on engaging in artistic activities on charges that include offending public decency through the production and publication of “vulgar and immoral content” online.

Although the official judiciary news agency has yet to publish the ruling, rights groups and lawyers who reviewed the documents said the pattern of arrests and legal cases against artists publicly defying the regime reflects a broader effort to deter cultural dissent.

Bahar Ghandehari, the director of advocacy at the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, said that the punishment shows the severity of Iran’s human rights abuses.

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