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By Sister Toldjah One of the things you get used to seeing when you're on apps like Nextdoor and other similar neighborhood-centered apps is people who jump on them in the middle of the night and nervously ask, "Was that fireworks or gunshots?" in response to hearing pops go off in the distance or nearby. I know I did that a time or two in my old neighborhood, which was a relatively safe, middle-class one that backed up to not-so-great ones, a common thing you see around Charlotte, North Carolina. Sometimes I'd get a response; sometimes I wouldn't, but when I (and others who posted) did, the sentiment seemed nearly universal: we shouldn't have to live like this. Occasionally, some smart aleck would chime in by using a laughing emoji and informing people that gunshots in the middle of the night were just something we should get used to because we live in a big city. My immediate thought was always, like hell we should get used to it. I'm in a different ...

By Bob Hoge I can tell you that this is not the news I wanted to see today, because I have to head to New York City soon for a wedding. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently delivering a defiant address to the United Nations Thursday, so you knew the antisemites and Hamas supporters would be out in force. Some of the usual suspects were there. Yup, far-left actress Susan Sarandon made an appearance, reportedly alongside the transgender acting person Ellen Page , who now goes by Elliot , and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning , who has also come out as transgender and who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. 🚨NYPD ARRESTS Susan Sarandon. "That's @SusanSarandon there." - @JordanChariton reacts to NYPD Arresting her at an anti-Netanyahu protest outside the United Nations in NYC pic.twitter.com/nEYZeTusbU — Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) September 24, 2026 Protests l...

By Rusty Weiss Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is restocking the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division with conservative lawyers after a mass exodus of the old guard. Dhillon said the division is “dedicated to eradicating DEI, cleaning up voter rolls , prosecuting religious discrimination, and more,” in an X post on Thursday. She pointed applicants to a DOJ hiring page and invited them to “join the fight.” Dhillon's rallying cry follows the departure of more than 300 of the division’s 400-plus attorneys over the past 19 months, a collapse Bloomberg Law tied to Dhillon’s overhaul of the office’s priorities. "The Justice Department’s gutted Civil Rights Division is rebuilding with lawyers steeped in conservative advocacy and Republican politics with a new mission to wage partisan fights and defend gun rights," the outlet reports. Yes, please. "The Civil Rights Division is one of the largest divisions here at Main Justice here in D.C.," Dhillo...

By Ward Clark Technology is a great force multiplier. We learned that, and our Iraqi opponents learned that, in 1991, in Operation Desert Storm, which was one of the first well-publicized mass uses of smart-weapons. We are still seeing that proved true today, with the use of high-tech weapons against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and in Iran itself. Now, in the latest example of Iran's lessons in "you had no idea who you were messing with," American forces are using powerful infrared lasers to target Iranian weapons and equipment .  The US military has been deploying lasers in the Strait of Hormuz to knock out regime hardware, taking out “drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles,” the Department of War recently confirmed. The US project to harness laser power has been 50 years in the making and outstrips the capabilities of any other military on Earth. “We can very specifically track and target ...

By Susie Moore New York's effort to make fossil-fuel companies pony up $75 billion for the state's climate-change costs has hit another sizable legal roadblock. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel granted summary judgment to the Trump administration in its challenge to New York's Climate Change Superfund Act, finding the law preempted by federal law and permanently blocking the state from enforcing it. New York enacted the law in 2024, creating a $75 billion fund to pay for infrastructure projects intended to help the state adapt to the effects of climate change. Rather than funding the program through general tax revenues, the law assigns the tab to fossil-fuel extractors and oil refiners deemed responsible for more than one billion tons of covered greenhouse-gas emissions between 2000 and 2024. To be clear, we're not talking just about emissions in New York — or even the United States. The law calculates each company's share based on fossil fuel...

By Hodaya Busheri A new document prepared with the involvement of former senior security and law enforcement officials and published Thursday, warns of a strategic vulnerability in the heart of the Negev in southern Israel. At the center of the warning is the possibility that, during a war, several threats that have each materialized separately in the past could converge in the same place at the same time. The scenario describes a dangerous combination of an estimated 100,000 to 130,000 illegal weapons and other arms, including rifles, machine guns, grenades and explosive devices, along with nationalist extremism and Iranian direction, near Israeli military bases and other strategic infrastructure. The danger is compounded by past events. Reserve pilots called up to Nevatim Air Force Base during Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021 nearly faced a lynching on their way there, while the nearby community of Nevatim was effectively cut off for about 24 hours. The State ...

By Ross O'Keefe An American tech CEO allegedly helped Russian nationals hide their ownership of a digital forensics company so it could land lucrative US government contracts — including a deal with the Secret Service. Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber, 52, allegedly joined forces with Moscow-based Russian national Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov, 52, in a Cold War-style scheme to conceal the company’s Russian ties while pitching its software to US agencies. And now Reiber is headed for a Los Angeles federal courtroom. The alleged deception could have given Russian agents a foothold inside a company providing technology used to “recover, preserve, and analyze electronic data from digital devices” belonging to government customers. Reiber and Davydov have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Reiber, an American, allegedly told the US government that the Alexandria, Virginia-based company wasn’t owned by Russians an...

By Ella Morrison The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial is fighting back after the killer’s attorney filed a motion to request his cellphone records over allegations he used his device during deliberations. Fellow jurors had alleged that holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil was on his phone while they were deliberating whether to convict Clancy of killing her three children — Callan, 8 months; Dawson, 3; and Cora, 5 — prompting her defense attorney Kevin Reddington to request the records. Desronvil, however, claimed that several other jurors used their cellphones throughout the seven days of deliberations and even posted to social media, his spokesperson Ray Marcel said in NewsNation’s Brian Entin.   Ray Marcel, a spokesperson for holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil, alleges that several jurors were using their phones during deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial during an interview with NewsNation’s Brian Entin.  Brian Entin / YouTube “He said e...