A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of assaulting a Long Beach police officer died of an overdose weeks later at his parents' Riverside County home, the Long Beach Post reported. According to the newspaper, Isaiah Hodgson's attorney told a Long Beach Superior Court judge that Hodgson died in August. The body of Hodgson, 29, was found around 12:45 p.m. Aug. 22 when deputies responded to a home in the 25000 block of Avocet Circle in an unincorporated area near Hemet, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Hodgson was reportedly one of the agents involved in an immigration raid in June in Pico Rivera in which Adrian Martinez -- a 20-year-old U.S. citizen - was detained, according to Martinez's lawyer. Hodgson was also charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest for a July 7 incident at the Shoreline Village parking lot
Former Republican state legislator Austin Smith pleaded guilty Monday to what he previously called "ludicrous" charges that he personally forged more than 100 signatures on his petitions for reelection last year. read more
President Donald Trump interrupted his own scrambled attempt to elucidate his affordability pitch to talk about his favorite sandwich. "I like the fish," said a hoarser-than-usual Trump while speaking at the McDonald's National Impact Summit in Washington Monday night. He waved his hand and released a throaty hiss, ostensibly to mime the fish he liked. "I like it. You could do a little bit more tartar sauce though, please. Seriously. I hate when I say, Do you have any tartar sauce? Do you understand that? Yes, he understands that.'" Trump's latest weird attempt to tout the McDonald's brand in order to seem like a normal person comes just one week after McDonald's chief executive Christopher Kempczinski told investors that ballooning prices at the fast-food chain had caused traffic from low-income households to drop by double digits.
David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is leaving his post, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Monday. read more
Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump's pardon entitled him to multi-million dollar reparations. read more
Kevin M. Kruse
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Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
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