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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

A court hearing for Cher's son Wednesday over allegations he broke into a New Hampshire home this month has been canceled. Elijah Allman's arrest on March 1 was his second in New Hampshire in a matter of days. Allman, the 49-year-old son of the iconic singer and actress, was also detained Feb. 27, accused of acting belligerently at a prestigious prep school in Concord. It is unclear if Allman, of Malibu, California, has any connection to the home in Windham, New Hampshire. He is being held in the Rockingham County Department of Corrections, Superintendent Jonathan Banville said.


Tuesday, March 10, 2026

The rising threat of notably strong tornadoes has prompted the highest severe thunderstorm risk in months to be issued in parts of the Midwest. It's all part of a more widespread potential outbreak of powerful storms across the Central US on Tuesday as a new storm system develops and strengthens over the region. A Level 4 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms is in place for more than 2 million people in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, including Peoria and Bloomington, Illinois.


While all eyes look up to the sky for more bimvs to fall on Iran, another object may fall on Iran. With a 1 in 4,200 chance of falling on Iranian child or teenager, Trump will be blamed for it. Read more


A former D.C. police officer is accused of sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women across the D.C. area. Timothy Valentin is accused of drugging and assaulting women he met on dating apps. So far, police say they've identified victims in Alexandria, Prince George's County and Takoma Park. Valentin left the Metropolitan Police Department in 2022. He's accused of assaults in 2024 and 2025. In at least one case, investigators say he told a victim he was in law enforcement, and police found a gun and badge in his car. News4 found disturbing details in Alexandria court documents filed in connection with his arrest in December. Detectives found dozens of explicit videos on his cellphone. "I want to acknowledge the enormity of this moment," Alexandria Chief of Police Tarrick McGuire said at a news conference Monday. Valentin faces charges related to four victims in Alexandria. Read more


Iran's tiny community of 10,000 Jews are trying to stay safe from barbaric IDF and US air and missile strikes, as well as spreading toxic fumes and acid rain caused by Israel's destruction of Iran's oil facilities.

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Trump's sons are using their father's fame to invest in war drones Read more


House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blandly discussed "our tone and our message" with two Republican congressmen who made hideous anti-Muslim remarks, but nevertheless defended the right of these lawmakers to oppose "the imposition of Sharia law" on the United States of America.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA)'s Priorities


Last week, the New York Times ran an alarming house editorial called "Politicians Are Trying To Control The News," outlining how the "shadow of press repression" is now expanding to "onetime bastions of press freedom" like Hong Kong, Israel, and Donald Trump's United States. Written in the grave tone the paper brought when it published a history-altering essay by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov fifty years ago, it was all true, except it left out our country's strangest and most shameful example, one in which the Times played a regrettable part: the case of Dimitri Simes. In August, 2024, the FBI raided the Virginia home of Simes, who defected to the United States in 1973 after being expelled for protesting Soviet involvement in the Vietnam War. A huge team of agents swooped into the empty home " both Simes and his wife were away " and took almost everything ...


Minutes later, Rep. Dave Pinto, DFL-St. Paul, the committee co-chair, compared blaming higher work pay for causing higher prices to the impact shoplifting has on higher prices. He started by mentioning a presentation on the impact of organized retail theft he'd heard in a public safety committee the day before. "There was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft," he said. "And it actually had not occurred to me to ask, it probably would have been good, to make sure that they would study the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft. Because perhaps people are relying on that and using that, and maybe it's assisting them in some way." Read more


Recent retiree Reinaldo Jesus Lefonts was charging his EV in a Downey library parking lot when he was attacked in a stabbing that severed both carotid arteries and both jugular veins. He was alive when an ambulance arrived at the parking lot " but that emergency vehicle was then stolen. The driver of the ambulance, according to police, led officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash miles away. "In that moment, every second mattered," Lefonts' family says in a legal claim against the city. "The City's paramedics and rescue vehicle were Reinaldo's only realistic chance of survival. Read more


SACRAMENTO " Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to spend $19 million promoting California and dispelling "myths driven by misinformation and political rhetoric" in a marketing campaign that would run through the final months of his administration as he weighs a potential run for president. The new contract, which is in the bidding process, comes as Newsom's political future and national standing are closely tied to how voters view California's economy, crime and quality of life " issues that have become central to attacks from President Trump and conservative media outlets. Read more


Jello Biafra, the outspoken co-founder and former frontman of the seminal San Francisco punk band Dead Kennedys, was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering a stroke.


"On 8 March, at the direction of the Commander of US Southern Command, USMC Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations." Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No US military forces were harmed.

Amnesty Intl Calls US Airstrikes Pure Murder


The Center on Conscience and War has been deluged with calls from US Servicemembers amid concerns the Trump administration was preparing to deploy them against the people of Iran. Opposition to the illegal war is much more widespread than has been reported and many callers were 'disgusted at the US massacre of the girls' school.'

Phones Ringing off the Hook
Servicemembers who became Conscientious Objectors after enlisting may call 1-800-379-2679 or 202-483-2220 for help.


The bitter debate between Democrats and Republicans over the SAVE Act " which would require voters to provide a valid ID to cast a ballot " has roiled political waters as both major parties gird themselves for the 2026 midterms. But do voters care? They sure do, and it's not good news for the Democrats, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll results indicate.


B Before dawn on March 10, 2014, a group of roughly thirty migrants awoke in Tijuana, Mexico, packed their belongings, and ate one final meal before attempting to cross into the United States. Some were Mexican nationals who had previously been deported. Others were Central American women and children hoping to reunite with family members who had migrated north years earlier. There was nothing unusual about their intentions. For decades, foreign nationals with similar hopes had arrived at Mexican border cities to prepare for the journey into the United States. What distinguished this group was not why they wanted to cross, but how they intended to do it


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