Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News

Drudge Retort

User Info

Reinheitsgebot

Subscribe to Reinheitsgebot's blog Subscribe

Menu

Special Features

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Batarti Gabbard, the 55-year-old brother of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, was arrested Friday for allegedly trying to lure children to a hotel room in Honolulu, Hawaii using "gum and money," the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Saturday. "Batarti Gabbard, aka Bhakti Gabbard, allegedly approached several children, including a boy, age 9, and offered them gum and money to accompany him to his hotel room, according to police," the outlet reported. "He also asked the children for their names and wrote them in a notebook, police said. The children refused to go with him and the suspect walked away."


Multiple U.S. service members were reportedly injured in Iranian attacks on Jordanian bases this week amid fresh U.S. strikes and chaos in the Strait of Hormuz. read more


Far-right influencer Andrew Tate, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, was arrested Saturday in Miami, Florida, the U.S. Marshals Service told the Associated Press. In 2022, Tate was arrested on rape and human trafficking charges in Romania, though after pressure from the Trump administration, the case ultimately didn't move forward. On Saturday, British prosecutors revealed they were "seeking the extradition of the brothers on rape and sex trafficking charges," the Associated Press reported, offenses that allegedly occurred between 2010 and 2017.


Moscow has been rocked by fresh drone strikes that set fire to the warehouses of the country's biggest online retailer ... read more


Friday, July 17, 2026

An employee of The GEO Group, the private-prison company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, has been arrested in connection with a shooting of a woman outside the facility Thursday night, Aurora police said. Brandon Booth, 42, was arrested on suspicion of charges that include attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and felony menacing, according to an Aurora Police Department release. The shooting occurred just outside the facility on Nome Street, where the victim had been among a group of demonstrators participating in a protest against ICE detention.


Comments

Drudge Retort
 

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy