A federal judge has rejected a desperate attempt by a former Wisconsin state judge to overturn her federal felony conviction after she helped an illegal migrant escape through her courtroom back door, which is a crime as it obstructs law enforcement business.
In his ruling, Judge Adelman said the federal government presented sufficient evidence that Dugan took deliberate steps to hinder federal officials from attempting to carry out an administrative arrest tied to immigration removal proceedings.
The judge also rejected arguments that the jury was improperly instructed or that the obstruction statute was applied too broadly. It seems as if Dugan isn't a very good judge.
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Police "reforms" in Boston replaced cops with mental health clinicians and social workers, and on Saturday one of those clinicians was attacked by a delusional man wielding a sword. The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, attacked the clinician as well as police officers with a sword.
Cops responded by shooting and killing the suspect.
The incident took place near the Northeastern University campus on Saturday morning in Boston. Officers were responding to a 911 call about four people armed with guns and the caller was in the apartment building. After officers arrived at 212 Hemenway Street and located the disturbance they called in a mental health professional with the Boston's BEST program, according to Mass Daily News.
The program, in which mental health professionals ride along with cops to de-escalate tense situations, has been running since 2011. The EMS clinician deployed to the scene spoke to the man for 45 minutes through the door before the suspect pushed open the door and attacked.
"He immediately opened the door and struck the clinician and an officer who was outside the door. He was armed with some type of sword, stabbing the officer in the arm and knocking the EMS clinician to the ground," Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said. "One or more officers, which is under investigation at this time, fired a taser and weapon at the individual, bringing the person to a halt."
The suspect as well as the officers and clinician that were attacked by the suspect were taken to the hospital. The suspect was later pronounced dead. "This was a very chaotic circumstance. The individual was clearly in some sort of mental distress," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.
Boston EMS said in a statement that their employee had gotten injured in the altercation."Our focus tonight remains on the two members of Boston EMS, including one of our BEST clinicians, who were treated and transported to the hospital after the incident on Hemenway Street in Boston. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries," the statement read.
"Today serves as a reminder of the dangers inherent in this work and the sacrifice our members make every day. Members of Boston EMS show up to save lives, not to be assaulted. No one should face violence for simply doing their job. Our thoughts are with our injured members, the Boston Police officers, and everyone affected by today’s incident."
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Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has been exposed for using Campaign Funds to pay his wife for babysitting their kids, ages 8, 7, and 4.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings and reporting on Eric "Gasman" Swalwell show that his use of campaign funds for childcare: reimbursed him for at least $200,000 (some reports cite over $244,000) for childcare expenses between 2019 and 2025.
This is the highest amount spent on childcare by any House member in that period, which may imply expenses that may have included kids designer clothes, silk diapers, a lot of dining out at high-end restaurants, multiple trips to Disney Land, and three Lamborghini kiddy cars.
In recent gubernatorial campaign filings, the committee made three payments totaling $6,068 directly to his wife, Brittany Swalwell, labeled for "childcare." Uh-huh, sure. This is what campaign donors paid for and we're to believe Swalwell, and many other Capitol Hill dwellers, are as honest as the day is long?
The campaign has also made substantial payments to third-party babysitters/nannies (e.g., over $102,000 to one longtime nanny) and daycare providers, with some reimbursements going back to Swalwell himself.
Nannies are lining up everywhere in California for a job with Gasman.
FEC rules (established via advisory opinions, including one sought by Swalwell) allow campaign funds for childcare only when expenses are a "direct result of campaign activity," meaning they would not have been incurred otherwise (e.g., when the candidate travels for their own campaign and the spouse is unavailable).
The FEC has explicitly barred using funds for childcare during travel for other candidates' campaigns or at the request of foreign governments.
Critics, including campaign finance experts, have called the scale of spending (including post-election payments and reimbursements to himself or family) a "slippery slope" or potentially personal use of donor money, noting that childcare is inherently a personal expense. Watchdogs have filed complaints over post-election babysitter payments (e.g., ~$17,000 in late 2022).
Swalwell and his wife have a combined household income averaging over $444,000 annually (2021–2024), placing them in the top 5% of D.C.-area households. He earns a congressional salary of ~$184,000, and his wife has earned $200,000–$250,000 in various roles, such as babysitting and taking in wash. [She works her fingers to the bone.]
Swalwell has defended the practice as a "pro-family" policy enabled by FEC precedents that apply to other candidates as well (e.g., some Democrats like the execrable Ilhan Omar (MN) have also used campaign funds for childcare).
His campaign has stated the expenses tie to his schedule and that he is not a billionaire unlike some rivals. These payments are disclosed in public FEC filings and have been the subject of multiple news reports and past complaints, though no final determination of illegality has been universally confirmed across all instances. The core controversy centers on whether all claimed "campaign-related" childcare truly qualifies under FEC standards versus routine family needs.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has joined the chorus of concern over the forthcoming appearance of famous anti-Semite Kanye West, while beverage giant Pepsi has withdrawn its sponsorship of the Wireless Festival, which the foul-mouth rapper is due to headline, following the booking.
The rapper who has glorified Adolf Hitler and the Nazis on multiple occasions, and blamed his behavior on mental illness caused by an old head injury. West, who now goes by “Ye”, is due to headline all three nights at the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, north London, in July, marking his first performances in the UK in over a decade.
In comments first reported by the Sun on Sunday, Starmer said: “It is deeply concerning that Kanye West has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous anti-Semitic remarks and celebration of Nazism.
“Antisemitism in any form is abhorrent and must be confronted clearly and firmly wherever it appears. Everyone has a responsibility to ensure Britain is a place where Jewish people feel safe and secure.”
Last spring West released a song entitled Heil Hitler which contained an extract of a speech from the Nazi leader. It followed the sale on his website of T-shirts featuring a swastika.
In October 2022, in a post on X he said he was going to go “death con 3 on Jewish people [sic]” and later denied the Holocaust on a far-right talk show, proving he is a disgusting person.
His outbursts led to him being dropped by commercial partners including Adidas. Meanwhile, Pepsi, the main sponsor of Wireless Festival, has confirmed it has withdrawn its support for the event following the booking. Why they originally agreed to sponsor this garbage human being is a mystery.
A Pepsi spokesperson told ITV News on Sunday: “Pepsi has decided to withdraw its sponsorship of Wireless Festival.” I wonder how long they pondered that decision.
In January, West took out a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to apologize for his behavior, including the anti-Semitic episodes, probably because it was hurting his bottom line.
The advert, which took the form of a letter to “those I have hurt”, attributed his actions to a bipolar disorder, resulting from an injury in a car accident that had only been diagnosed many years later. The way in which a car accident can cause bipolar disorder is rare and needs to include traumatic brain injury.
In early 2025, he fell into “a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life,” he said.
In that “fractured state”, he explained, “I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it.
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though. I am not a Nazi or an anti-Semite. I love Jewish people.”
Really?
The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council have both called for the cancellation of his booking at the Wireless Festival.
BoD president Phil Rosenberg said that given the current high levels of anti-Semitism in the UK, inviting West to perform “seems to be absolutely the wrong decision and many Jewish people will worry that that will just inflame what is already a very febrile situation.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism commented: “The Government can ban anyone from entering the UK who is not a citizen and whose presence would ‘not be conducive to the public good’. Surely this is a clear case.”
That must have been one heck of a car accident.
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The desperate search for the missing American pilot of an F-15E that was shot down over Iran stretched into the second day after his co-pilot was rescued in a daring search and rescue mission that saw other US aircraft targeted.
Crews were racing against time to find the second pilot of the Strike Eagle, which is believed to have gone down Friday in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in the southwestern part of the country near Iraq, The New York Times reported. Iranian officials quickly placed a bounty on the pilot’s head, calling on civilians to help capture him or her.
Retired Marine combat pilot Capt. Ron Alvarado told The Post the timing of the attack may bode in the US’s favor in terms of finding the pilot because of better night vision and infrared communication technology than Iranian combatants.
“We own the night,” Alvarado said. “Hopefully, he or she will be rescued by morning.”
By early Saturday local time there were no updates on the status of the missing pilot.
Both pilots reportedly ejected from the plane, with one located and rescued by US forces hours later. That pilot was being medically treated.
The Strike Eagle has an emergency locator beacon as part of a survival kit that can be activated automatically or manually, Alan Diehl, a former investigator for the Air Force Safety Center, said.Other US aircraft were caught in the crosshairs as crew members rushed into action after the first plane plunged to the ground.
Another US aircraft was also targeted after the initial attack that took down an A-10 Thunderbolt [aka Warthog].
The Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf area after it was struck by Iranian forces, but the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to US officials.
The A-10 Warthog was able to reach Kuwaiti airspace, where the pilot ejected and the plane crashed, an official told liberal network NBC News.
Iran terrorists using rifles also struck a pair of US military helicopters involved in the F-15E rescue, but all crew members are safe, a US official told NBC News.
Some of the crew were injured, but the choppers safely returned to their base, the Washington Post reported.
The F-15E is the first US aircraft to be shot down in Iran during Operation Epic Fury, in which the US and Israel have launched 20,000 strikes on the evil regime as the war stretched into its sixth week.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed its “newly developed and advanced air defenses” had downed the jet, which was “completely destroyed and crashed,” Tehran’s Press TV reported.
A photo circulating online appeared to show one of the ejected seats seen at the top of the post.
The anchor of a local affiliate of the state TV broadcaster earlier urged Iranians to hunt down the downed “enemy” pilots and the regime is offering a reward for his capture.
“If you capture the enemy pilot or pilots alive and hand them over to the police, you will receive a precious prize,” the anchor said, according to the Associated Press. Sources at Brain Flushings believes the reward to be 72 virgin goats.
President Trump, in a brief NBC News interview Friday afternoon, declined to discuss the specifics of the ongoing search for the outstanding pilot but insisted the series of strikes against US jets and choppers won’t sidetrack negotiations.
“No, not at all. No, it’s war,” he said. “We’re in war.”
The good news is that the pilot has not been captured and is likely using tactics to avoid detection, giving him a good chance of escape and return to friendly forces.
Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have boasted about how the operation against Tehran has knocked out much of Iran’s capabilities.
Hegseth said in early March near the start of the war that the US was “establishing total dominance over the skies we fly over and seas we fly over.”
Meanwhile, President Trump, in a primetime address to the nation Wednesday, said thanks to progress made during the war, his administration was “on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly.”
More than 90% of Tehran’s missile and drone capacities have been eliminated in the month-long war, US officials have said. Still, Trump has refused to rule out putting American boots on the ground during the conflict.
On Friday, Iran used the successful attacks to taunt the US, reminiscent of Monty Python's "Black Knight."
Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf criticized the US in an X post Friday that its “no-strategy war … has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’”
A US F-35A was also damaged over Iran on March 19 during a combatmission, and 16 MQ-9 drones have been shot down. Three American F-15 fighter jets were also shot down over Kuwait in a friendly fire incident.
Hegseth revealed in a Pentagon news conference that the six downed crew members in those jets had “never left the theater” and returned to drop bombs on Tehran Tuesday.
Since the start of the war, 365 US service members have been wounded in action while the death toll is at 13, according to the Pentagon data available online.
It’s unclear if Friday’s incidents have been included in those figures.
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An A-10 Warthog aircraft reportedly “crashed” near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, though the exact location remains unclear, according to sources briefed on intelligence matters.The pilot was safely recovered. At this time, it's unclear as to whether the aircraft was shot down or suffered mechanical problems that caused it to go down.
In a separate incident involving the downed F-15E fighter jet, the aircraft’s weapons systems officer remains missing. It is not immediately clear whether he was able to eject from the aircraft safely. Let's pray that he's okay and not in enemy hands.
Two rescue helicopters deployed as part of a combat search and rescue mission to locate the missing crew member also came under enemy fire by scumcrumpets with rifles.
Both helicopters sustained damage, and some crew members were reportedly injured, but the aircraft were able to land safely.
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Jordanne Drinkwater, 32, a Walmart employee at anArkansas Walmart Superstore, was fatally stabbed during her late-night shift by a man who believed he was killing a "demon" who was stalking him.
Officers from the Conway Police Department arrived within roughly a minute and encountered the suspect, later identified as 37-year-old Zeddrick Ross, still armed with a knife. They were dispatched at 10:58 p.m. Tuesday to reports that a man was stabbing an employee at the Walmart Supercenter on U.S. 65, according to police.
The cops issued multiple commands for the man to drop the knife, but he refused to do so and then began to approach an officer. It was a lunatic who brought a knife to a gun fight. The cop shot and missed, but another cop tased the suspect and took him into custody.
Ross is currently being held without bond on a charge of first-degree murder at the Faulkner County Detention Center.
Ms. Drinkwater was given emergency aid by police and then by medical personnel but unfortunately died at the scene.
The suspect was taken into custody, booked into the Faulkner County Detention Center where he will await trial and probably not get a death sentence like he gave to Jordanne Drinkwater. Fortunately, nobody else was injured.
Ross did not know Ms. Drinkwater and he wasn't employed at Walmart. Police described the event as a random act of violence, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to the police affidavit, reviewed by Fox News Digital, Ross told a detective he had been pursued by what he described as a "demon" and armed himself with a knife for protection.
Ross said he believed he was confronting that figure when he stabbed Drinkwater multiple times, later telling investigators he realized she did not resemble the person he thought had been following him.
Local liberals may possibly start calling for a ban on knives like the mayor of London did after multiple stabbing took place several years ago.
The affidavit said that the suspect told police he had stolen the knife earlier and had gone to the store intending to obtain another weapon. An officer who discharged a firearm during the encounter and missed, has been placed on administrative leave in spite of his lousy aim. This, however, is a routine step following an officer-involved shooting, the department said.
According to records from the Independence County District Court, Ross' criminal history includes a 2020 theft misdemeanor charge and conviction and a 2022 obstructing governmental operations in Faulkner County District Court conviction. In 2022, he was sentenced to one year of probation.
Drinkwater, who went affectionately as Puff to friends, was described as an "amazing human being." Sam Slaughter, who knew Drinkwater for nearly 10 years, told KATV that she heard the news of her friend’s death when another friend texted her.
"I called him and I said, ‘You’re kidding. It's not . . . not, not Jordan, not Puff, right? Like, that’s not Puff, right?’ And the world stopped," Slaughter told the outlet.
"I never met somebody as, as, as pure as Jordan. It was just I don’t—I didn’t understand. I still don’t understand why it had to be her. She helped change my entire life for the better—everything from staying sober to the way I think about the world and how it works and not putting more hate into it and just trying to do better. She was an amazing human being. She’s going to be so, so missed."
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President Donald Trump has been briefed on the downing of an F-15 fighter jet over Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and state media claimed to have shot down a U.S. fighter jet over central Iran. While this is possible, the chances are better that there was a malfunction and the pilots had to bail.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and state media claimed to have shot down a U.S. fighter jet over central Iran, specifically in the mountainous Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
Initial Iranian reports claimed the aircraft was an F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter. However, subsequent photos of wreckage released by Iranian media suggest the aircraft may be an F-15E Strike Eagle, likely from the 494th Fighter Squadron based at RAF Lakenheath. So it's more likely the IRGC is using propaganda photos and got it wrong.
U.S. officials for weeks have insisted the U.S. and Israel have "complete control over Iranian skies," and recently sent the slower, non-stealthy B-52 bombers into Iran, underscoring how confident they were that Iranian airpower had been nearly eliminated.
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"We are in this military operation . . . for 32 days," Trump said in an address Wednesday. "And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat."
"They have no anti-aircraft equipment," Trump added. "Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable."
Aviation experts say the aircraft seen in the circulating footage appears consistent with an F-15 based on several distinctive features, including its twin vertical tails, wide fuselage, and dual-engine configuration. The F-15s widely spaced engine intakes and rectangular air inlets are also key identifiers that distinguish it from other U.S. fighter jets.
Hopefully, the pilots are in hiding or have been taken in by friendly Iranians. We will likely soon find out.
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