The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press. David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.
A man has been arrested in the western United States after allegedly stabbing a Muslim man multiple times inside a shopping mall, telling investigators he targeted the victim because of his religion and he "intends to kill Muslims", according to court records. Police said the attack, which took place on Monday at Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City in the state of Utah, appeared to have been motivated by religious hatred. In a court affidavit released on Tuesday, investigators said the suspect "targeted the victim because of the victim's religion" and warned that he posed "a substantial danger to the public if released based on his violent actions, ... ideologies and pre-planned mass casualty events".
"While Texas moved quickly and aggressively, California could not provide the clear, expedited approval process needed to compete. This is an enormous loss for Solano County, California workers and our state's manufacturing economy." "Joshua Arce, executive director for the California Alliance of Jobs, which represents thousands of union construction workers across the state, confirmed that "10,000 permanent jobs and thousands of union construction jobs" that would have accompanied Saronic's Port Alpha shipyard in California are headed to Texas instead. He said "state leaders failed to act with the urgency this project demanded." Read more
SAN FRANCISCO"A security guard at Anthropic rushed to stop the man sneaking into the lobby of the world's most valuable AI startup. The man had entered by following closely behind a badge-swiping employee. He showed the guard an envelope marked with the name of a top Anthropic executive. The executive was "going to be killed," he told the guard, and he needed to warn someone, according to records of the April 15 incident viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The encounter, which took place five days after an attempted firebombing of OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman's house, ended without violence or an arrest. But for executives at Anthropic"and across the artificial-intelligence industry"the threat was far from over.
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Iran has accused the United States of committing a "cowardly war crime" by striking near a children's cancer hospital and compared its actions to Israel's targeting of healthcare facilities in Gaza. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on X on Thursday that the US carried out a "barbaric" attack and 211 patients "undergoing chemotherapy" were evacuated from Shahid Baghaei Specialised Hospital in the southwestern city of Ahvaz. A doctor at the treatment centre told reporters the blast was "intense" and "so close" that they thought the hospital had been hit. "This barbaric attack, reminiscent of Israel's atrocities against healthcare facilities, caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalised children, and forced the emergency evacuation," said Baghaei.
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The driver of a Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab Model 3 that killed a 76-year-old woman when it ploughed into her home at high speed in Katy, Texas in June had overridden the vehicle's advanced driver assistance system, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday. The 44-year-old driver had engaged Full Self Driving (FSD) (Supervised) and manually overrode FSD by fully depressing the accelerator pedal and the 2025 model vehicle's speed was greater than 70 mph (113 kph) when the crash occurred, the NTSB said, citing electronic data recovered from the vehicle.
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The moment I checked into the hospital, I received a call from Russia. The caller addressed me by my name and asked how I was feeling.
At the moment when I was preparing for a surgery!
He said he represented the Russian Ministry of Defense and offered me to sign a military contract.
Now, do you believe it was a coincidence? After everything that has happened around me, the timing is impossible to ignore.
Intelligence on China was collected, analyzed in Trump's first term. Information does not show Beijing changed votes. Trump administration working to exert federal control over US elections. The White House is considering releasing sensitive intelligence related to China and its ability to interfere in U.S. elections that some Trump officials worry could be misleading, according to four people with knowledge of the deliberations.
In a move that will place hundreds of thousands of green card applicants under broader scrutiny each year, the Trump administration is allowing immigration officers to consider whether some applicants have used taxpayer-funded benefits " including Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance " when determining whether they qualify for permanent legal status. The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing "public charge" test " an immigration screening tool used to determine whether applicants are likely to rely on government support " according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.
Revised plan aims to keep something going' amid fears Netanyahu may gamble on new all-out offensive before Israeli elections.v Read more
The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence review to help determine what happened, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Read more
During negotiations with the U.S. in Switzerland last month, the Iranian government reportedly warned Vice President JD Vance that President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were undermining the chances of a peace deal. Drop Site News reports, citing an unnamed Iranian official, that Iranian negotiators believed Witkoff and Kushner were more interested in trying to profit off the talks in financial markets than reaching a lasting agreement. The Iranians were also worried about Kushner and Witkoff leaking information to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Iranians sent a private message to Vance through an intermediary following earlier communication through Pakistani mediators. Those earlier communications reportedly included written documentation that "individuals close to President Trump" were using the war and diplomatic talks to manipulate markets. Read more
VPOTUS JD Vance wasted three hours on multi-millionaire Joe Rogan's imbecilic podcast where he blew off the insult made at the 14 June White House UFC cage match that Michele Obama was really a man. The VPOTUS has nothing better to do with his American taxpayer-funded salary while a treasury-depleting war rages on against Iran on Israel's behalf, the US Senate is in session, ICE murders are piling up, and a US Senator is about to be buried or lie in state.
UFC thug Josh Hokit is not a good human being. Neither are JD Vance and Joe Rogaine
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel established a hasty war room in the West Wing lasting seven hours to feverishly determine who leaked information about the security deficiencies on the Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One. D/FBI Patel was diverted at the last minute from a trip to Chicago and some officials were asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds.
"Bribe Force One" is a disaster
Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL-3rd CD): "The thing that people need to recognize is that as we sit here, the Chinese government has already deployed digital twins of every member of Congress and has been using the data that they've harvested." The Florida Republican bleated that foreign adversaries can influence policy in Washington, DC without "firing a single shot," but rather infiltrating the minds of citizens nationwide.
Batchit UFO voodoo blither-blather from this incumbent who is ahead in her race for re-election
