FINALLY CAPTURED AND ARRESTED! Vance Boelter, the alleged shooter of two Minnesota elected officials, has been arrested and is in custody according to CBS News.

Minnesota authorities said their manhunt for the suspect in the shooting of two state Democratic lawmakers remains very active and urged the public to come forward with any information.

Law-enforcement agents were focusing their search in Sibley County, Minn, not far from the home of the suspect, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter. Authorities found a hat linked to him near a vehicle that they believe he left in the area, they said at a press conference on Sunday evening.

Authorities said they have received 400 tips so far and are unsure what mode of transportation Boelter is using to get around. They added that he has been in contact with people, although they didn’t specify who and said they are unsure if anyone is helping him evade capture.

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Boelter is suspected of posing as a police officer to gain access to the Brooklyn Park home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman early Saturday, according to law-enforcement officials. The 55-year-old lawmaker, a former speaker of the state House, and her husband, Mark Hortman, were fatally shot there in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called an act of “targeted political violence.”

He also is suspected in the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman, 60, and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, in their Champlin, Minn., home. They both survived. The victims’ homes are about 8 miles apart and located roughly 15 to 20 miles north of Minneapolis.

Boelter was named as a suspect in part because of an identification left at the scene of Hortman’s shooting, special agent Travis Riddle, of the St. Paul field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in an interview with Fox News. Law-enforcement agents were also able to run traces on firearms recovered by officials.

Authorities said they found a list in the suspect’s vehicle that named other public officials. Those officials were alerted and have received additional security, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Boelter knew Hoffman or Hortman.

The list had dozens of names, including prominent individuals who support abortion rights in Minnesota, Democratic lawmakers, and abortion providers, according to an official who has seen the document.

On Sunday, authorities said they haven’t found a manifesto, only names of lawmakers and others alongside other thoughts, which they didn’t detail.

The shootings were “politically motivated, and there clearly was some throughline with abortion because of the groups that were on the list,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat of Minnesota, on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning.

Klobuchar, the senior senator from Minnesota, is mentioned in the suspect’s writings, according to a person with knowledge of a briefing on the subject.

The senator said she was with Hortman and her husband at a “big political dinner” the night before the killings. “That was the last time so many of us saw Melissa and Mark.” She said Walz, a Democrat, called her at 5 a.m. Saturday to tell her about Hortman’s death.

Klobuchar said Hoffman and his wife “are hanging in there.”

She shared a message from Yvette Hoffman, who said she and her husband were both “incredibly lucky to be alive” after being shot multiple times. “John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods,” his wife said in the statement.

On Sunday morning, Hortman’s home in Brooklyn Park was surrounded by yellow police tape. Plywood covered the front door and several windows. A police cruiser and several media teams were parked across the street.

Alka Dabade, a retiree who lives about one hole away on the golf course behind the Hortman home, walked about half a mile to see the house.

“It’s shocking,” she said, noting that she and her husband had lived in the area since 1993 and consider it very safe. The couple got an alert from the police to shelter in place on Saturday around 5:30 a.m. They weren’t allowed to leave until 3:30 p.m., she said.

Records show that Boelter lived with his family in a house in rural Green Isle, Minn., about an hour’s drive from Hortman’s home. He stayed a few nights a week at a rental home in Minneapolis with roommates.

One of his roommates, David Carlson, said Boelter was working overnight shifts for an organization that handles eye donations while trying to get a private security company off the ground. Boelter has also served as a Christian preacher, including at a church in the Congo.

On Saturday, Carlson said he woke to a text from Boelter saying he was “going to be gone for a while” and “may be dead shortly.” Carlson said he called the police.

Boelter had voted for President Trump and was against abortion, Carlson said.

Police responded to the shootings around 2 a.m. Saturday. Police were called first to Hoffman’s home. Officers then went to check on Hortman’s home around 3:35 a.m. and spotted the suspect emerging from her house, said Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley. The suspect was dressed as a police officer and there was an SUV in the driveway with emergency lights on, according to Bruley. The suspect, who wore a badge and police gear, retreated into the house and escaped on foot out the back, he said.

Political figures from across the spectrum condemned the shootings, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) asked that lawmakers be given a briefing on security once they return from a recess. “The level of threat that lawmakers are exposed to is just unacceptable,” said Sen. Tina Smith (D., Minn.)

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THIS JUST IN! Rep. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Assaulted and Arrested by Trump Autoritarian Fascist Thug!

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday and briefly detained after trying to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

"I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary," Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men to physically push him out of the room. It was unclear who the men were as several were dressed in plainclothes.

Padilla's office shared a video of the incident with NBC News. The video shows Padilla being taken into a hallway outside and pushed face forward onto the ground as officers with FBI-identifying vests told the senator to put his hands behind his back. The officers then handcuffed him.

Padilla's office said in a statement that Padilla was in L.A. to perform congressional oversight of the government's operations in the city and across his state. The statement said that the senator is no longer detained.

"He was in the federal building to receive a briefing with [Air Force] General [Gregory] Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem’s press conference," his office said. "He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information.”

Democrats have ramped up criticism of the Trump administration after the president deployed National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to L.A. in response to the ongoing protests. Dozens of demonstrations have taken place across the country in the days that followed and more are planned this weekend.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., denounced the incident on the Senate floor. "I just saw something that sickened my stomach. The manhandling of a United States Senator, we need immediate answers to what the hell went on," he said.

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the state's other senator, wrote on X that Padilla "represents the best of the Senate. The disgraceful and disrespectful conduct of DHS agents, pushing and shoving him out of a briefing like that, demands our condemnation. He will not be silenced or intimidated. His questions will be answered. I’m with Alex."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a post on X that Padilla "is one of the most decent people I know." "This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now," he added.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, of which Padilla is a member, called what happened "unacceptable."

"We demand a full investigation and consequences for every official involved in this assault against a sitting US senator," the group said on X.

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., interrupted a House committee hearing on sanctuary cities after video of Padilla spread on social media and called on the panel to subpoena Noem over the incident. “We need to subpoena Kristi Noem,” Frost demanded of House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. “Just shut up,” Comer replied, after moments of back-and-forth yelling.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., criticized Padilla for interrupting the news conference.

“If you come to my press conference, yeah, you need to be respectful," he said, adding, "What he ought to be doing, in my view, is making sure that we have rational immigration policy. And Senator Padilla, who’s a nice man, sat on the sidelines for four years, watch the border completely be blown apart.”

The incident follows a string of arrests of Democratic elected officials related to immigration. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last month for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey. The charges were ultimately dropped, but he has sued interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba over the incident and Ricky J. Patel, a special agent in charge of the Newark division of Homeland Security Investigations.

Earlier this week, Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was indicted on federal charges that stemmed from the same confrontation with law

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BREAKING!!! Mahmoud Khalil's deportation by ICE blocked by federal judge!

The federal judge presiding over Mahmoud Khalil’s case on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration, for now, cannot deport or detain the Columbia University activist based on a determination by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The judge’s preliminary injunction will not take effect until Friday, allowing the government time to appeal.

Rubio has cited an obscure provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to justify Khalil’s removal from the U.S., saying that he poses a national security risk. He had argued that the provision allows the secretary of state to “personally determine” whether Khalil should remain in the country.

U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled that Khalil could not be removed based on Rubio’s determination, but said another avenue by which the government is seeking could be a basis for his deportation.

Khalil was a Columbia University student who played an active role in protests over the war in Gaza on the Manhattan campus last year.

He was arrested by federal agents in March and has been held since, as he and his lawyers have challenged efforts to deport him. The Trump administration has accused him of leading “activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has alleged that Khalil has acted to “glorify and support terrorists.”

Khalil, who has not been charged with any crime, last week called the claims “grotesque and false.”

In his decision Wednesday, the judge said that Khalil’s “career and reputation are being damaged and his speech is being chilled — and this adds up to irreparable harm.”

The Department of Homeland Security has also argued that it could detain Khalil because he inaccurately completed his lawful-permanent-resident application.

But that would not work as an argument to keep Khalil detained, Farbiarz wrote.

“The evidence is that lawful permanent residents are virtually never detained pending removal” for those types of omissions, he wrote.

“And that strongly suggests that it is the Secretary of State’s determination that drives the Petitioner’s ongoing detention — not the other charge against him,” Farbiarz wrote.

Messages seeking comment from the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department were not immediately returned.

Khalil was one of the first campus protesters targeted by the Trump administration, which has vowed to strike back over protests over the war in Gaza, which Israel launched after it was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

Trump has targeted Columbia and Harvard, citing a fight to combat anti-semitism at universities.

The Trump administration last week claimed Columbia violated Jewish students’ rights and threatened the Manhattan university’s accreditation.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Phil Helsel

Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.

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JUST IN! US Marines arrive in LA; California governor warns 'democracy under assault'

After days of fiery protest against federal immigration raids, Los Angeles residents and officials braced for the arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines on Tuesday in what some called an unprecedented and potentially explosive deployment of active-duty troops with hazy mission objectives.

As Trump administration officials vowed to crack down on “rioters, looters and thugs,” state and local officials decried the mobilization of 700 troops from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, calling it a clear violation of law and civility. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass even likened the deployment to “an experiment” that nobody asked to be a part of.

According to the U.S. Northern Command, which oversees troops based in the United States, the Marines will join “seamlessly” with National Guard troops under “Task Force 51” — the military’s designation of the Los Angeles forces. The Marines, like the Guard, they said, “have been trained in de-escalation, crowd control and rules for the use of force.”

Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot told The Times on Tuesday that the Marines in Los Angeles were limited in their authority, deployed only to defend federal property and federal personnel. They do not have arrest power, he said.

“They are not law enforcement officers, and they do not have the authority to make arrests,” Guillot said. “There are very unique situations where they could detain someone ... but they could only detain that person long enough to hand it off to a proper law enforcement official.”

But military experts have raised practical concerns about the unclear parameters of the Marines’ objective. They also warn that sending in Marines without a request from a governor — a highly unusual step that has not been made since the civil rights era in 1965 — could potentially inflame the situation.

U.S. Marines are trained for overseas conflict zones, with deployments in recent decades in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. But the roles they have played in those nations — including providing artillery support to coalition forces fighting against Islamic State militants and advising and training local security forces — are quite different from what they might face as they confront protesters in Los Angeles.

“Marines are trained to fight, that’s the first thing they’re trained to do,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a military research group. “So I think you do have a little bit of mismatch in skills here.”

“In a crisis, when they’re forced to make a snap decision, do they have enough training and experience to make the one that de-escalates the situation rather than escalates it? I think that’s a question mark,” Kavanagh said.

Hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told congressional lawmakers Tuesday that the mobilization of troops to Los Angeles to curtail protests would cost $134 million, President Trump told U.S. Army troops at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina that he deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines “to protect federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob.”

But city and state officials have repeatedly said that troops are not necessary to contain the protests.

On Monday night, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the deployment of Marines “a blatant abuse of power” and filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the deployment.

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell warned that — “absent clear coordination” — the prospect of Marines descending on Los Angeles “presents a significant logistical and operational challenge for those of us charged with safeguarding this city.”

However, Guillot said coordinating among different agencies “hasn’t been a challenge to us at all.”

“I think people understand that we’re there for a very specific purpose,” he said. “We’re very highly trained, professional and disciplined, and people have been very cooperative so far.”

By Tuesday afternoon, all 700 Marines had arrived in the Greater Los Angeles area, Guillot said. At least one convoy of U.S. Marine vehicles from Twentynine Palms had arrived at Orange County’s Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach under police escort.

The mobilized Marines and National Guard troops will be stationed in facilities across the region, including Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and a number of National Guard armories, Guillot said. He didn’t provide further details.

Over the last few days, National Guard members have already been stationed at a few federal buildings and have accompanied Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on missions, Guillot said. He expects Marines will be mobilized on the ground Wednesday, if not Tuesday evening, after wrapping up final training.

It is rare for U.S. Marines to be sent to an American city. The last time they were deployed in the U.S. was after riots broke out in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of four LAPD officers who were recorded beating a Black motorist, Rodney G. King.

Back then, President George H.W. Bush acted at the request of California Gov. Pete Wilson and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley after what The Times described as “three days of the worst urban unrest in Los Angeles history.”

Deploying Marines to Los Angeles is not only a dramatic escalation of events, but also potentially illegal, according to Abigail Hall, a defense scholar and senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Oakland.

Bringing in the Marines to L.A., she said, violates the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law enacted after the Civil War, which forbids active-duty federal forces to provide regular civilian law enforcement unless authorized by Congress or the president invokes the Insurrection Act.

Trump has yet to invoke the Insurrection Act.

“I don’t see any way that this is not a direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act,” Hall said. “We’re not at war, we’ve not invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807 — and even if we did, that’s what the National Guard is for. It’s not what the Marines are for.”

Kavanagh didn’t comment on the deployment’s legality, but called it unprecedented in modern times. She worried that could make its mission and parameters unclear for troops.

The last time the military was deployed without a governor’s request or approval, military experts said, was to facilitate court-ordered desegregation in Southern states during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Kori Schake, senior fellow and director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Trump administration appeared to be trying out a new way to get around the restrictions on domestic law enforcement by the American military.

“The authority the president is claiming is his constitutional authority under what’s called the Take Care clause ... he’s claiming the federal responsibility to protect federal agents and federal property operations. That authority has never been tested in court.”

Such an approach, Schake said, was fraught with more than legal risk.

“If violence burgeons, tempers are running high, the Marines are armed, this could spiral out of control,” Schake said.

The L.A. deployment, Kavanagh said, could also be a jarring mission for Marines who signed up to go abroad and defend America’s freedom — and instead are facing off with fellow citizens.

“Does everyone know the rules of engagement?” Kavanagh asked of the L.A. mission. “Are they clear?”

She also worried that the troops deployed to L.A. are likely to have some of the most limited experience. Guard members are not full time and undergo less frequent training, and Marines retain the youngest service members of all the military branches. Nearly three-quarters of active-duty enlisted members of the Marine Corps are 25 or younger, according to a 2022 Department of Defense report. The average age is 24, compared with 27 for the Army and 28 for the Air Force.

Schake, however, pointed out that although Marines may be the youngest cohort in the military, they are well trained in de-escalation tactics.

“The wars that the United States has been fighting for the last 25 years have required incredible discipline on the use of force by the military in Afghanistan and in Iraq in particular, so they are trained for de-escalating conflict,” Schake said. “I think actually, it’s quite possible they’re better trained at de-escalation of violence than the police forces are.”

In that sense, Schake said she was less worried about violence on the streets than about “creeping authoritarianism.”

“The way the president, that Homeland secretary, the secretary of Defense, the White House press spokesman are talking is incendiary and reckless,” Schake said.

“They’re calling the city of Los Angeles — where 1 in 40 Americans live — a hellscape, and everybody in the city a criminal. They’re describing protests that are really peaceful as an insurrection. And that’s a very reckless thing to do in a difficult situation.”

Times staff writers Hayley Smith and Christopher Buchanan contributed to this report.

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JUST IN! LA mayor imposes limited curfew as protests draw on

 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed a curfew in her city’s downtown Tuesday evening, seeking to avert looting and vandalism as immigration protests stretch into their fifth day.

The attempt to ease tensions came after the Trump administration ordered Marines and California National Guard troops to the region over the objections of Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom. California has sued to reverse the deployment, and the state is awaiting a Thursday afternoon hearing on its request for a restraining order.

“If you do not live or work in downtown LA, avoid the area,” Bass told reporters.

She said the curfew would cover one square mile of the city.

Democrats have insisted the interventions are unnecessary to quell mostly peaceful protests of federal immigration raids in which demonstrators are far outnumbered by local police. Yet videos of protesters throwing rocks at cars, burning self-driving cars and insulting law enforcement have created a national spectacle in California.

The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday and last until 6 a.m. Wednesday, and include exceptions for residents of the area, people traveling to and from work and media. Bass said the city would likely impose curfews again over the next few nights.

Trump has promised ongoing, daily immigration arrests in Los Angeles. Guard troops deployed to the region have begun assisting in the sweeps, protecting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from demonstrators, the Associated Press reported.

EXPOSED! BBC hits back at Karoline Leavitt's 'fake news'.

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, recently gave a press briefing about Palestinians killed close to an aid distribution centre in Gaza on June 1. A key question, she suggested, was whether the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) were really to blame, as had been reported.

“Unlike some in the media, we don’t take the word of Hamas as total truth,” she said. “We like to look into it when they speak, unlike the BBC.”

Given the explosive war of words that has broken out between US president Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, Leavitt’s accusation may now appear to be small potatoes. But it matters: this is the latest twist of Trump’s undermining of a free press that has been evolving since he first repeated the words back in 2016 that would shake the public’s belief in journalism: “Fake news!”

On inauguration day in January, my international journalism class and I were examining the seating chart for the White House press briefing room. We discussed the prime position of the Associated Press’s (AP) seat (front and centre) and the seats further back, where in the seventh row the BBC shared a position with Newsweek. We wondered if Trump might shuffle the pack, but decided that decisions were safely in the hands of the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Since then, the whole game has changed. Even an organisation as large and venerable as AP can be turfed out of the White House press pool on its ear. Meanwhile selected, right-wing newcomers like Brian Glenn of Real America’s Voice can throw a curve ball putting such an extraordinary question to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky during a White House press conference that it temporarily disturbs the course of a war.

The White House later decided to take away access given to other wire services such as Reuters and Bloomberg rather than allow AP to return to its previous access.

Media appearances and briefings for Trump are now purely performative. Friendly media companies get special invitations to Trump’s often explosive meetings with world leaders (such as that with Zelensky above), and “legacy media” have to keep raising their hands for access.

Leavitt, Trump’s young spokesperson, came out swinging at her briefing, brandishing a handy A4 printout of BBC online news stories on the shootings in Gaza on June 1.

As she waved her piece of paper – as curiously old-fashioned as Trump’s tariff whiteboard – she appeared assured of her facts. While referring to the page, compiled by a student activist on X, she announced that the BBC had edited “multiple headlines” about the death count, and changed claims about the deaths from being the result of tank fire to gunfire.

Without a hint of irony, she observed: “So we’re going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium. I suggest that journalists who actually care about truth do the same to reduce the misinformation that’s going around the globe.”

Back in London, the BBC released a timely statement arguing that it updated its breaking stories throughout the events on June 1, saying this was “normal practice” and that all its figures were “clearly attributed”.

Meanwhile, the corporation’s analysis editor, Ros Atkins, put out a brief but carefully worded video, via BBC Verify, that concluded Leavitt’s accusations were “repeatedly false”. It affirmed that BBC reporters had quoted figures “with clear attribution” from the “the Hamas-run health ministry”. It also used sources such as the independent Red Cross and quoted the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in stories that day.

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The White House attacks the BBC for its coverage of Gaza.

Atkins refuted Leavitt’s claims that the BBC had taken down any of its articles and confirmed that they remained online. He said that BBC Verify had examined a separate online video posted on social media (not a BBC video) and deemed it unrelated to the aid centre deaths. He said that once again the student activist had “misrepresented what BBC Verify had done. The White House then repeated this misrepresentation.”

Interestingly, following the BBC Verify examination of the other video, the Israeli army has admitted responsibility for “a previously unacknowledged strike on the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza”, which reportedly killed at least one Palestinian and injured 30 others.

Two days after her initial briefing, Leavitt doubled down with similar accusations against the “fake news BBC”. However, it is Atkins’ final comment on his video that knocks out arguments that the White House is an arbiter of truth that is most chilling: “But in this case either the White House didn’t look into its claims about the BBC before bringing them to the podium or had no concern that they weren’t true.”

Part of Trump’s playbook involves sowing uncertainty among the public about the truth. He and his associates repeatedly hurl accusations, and then sit back and see what sticks. Going after one of the world’s most trusted media organisations neatly serves this purpose, even though the BBC is a UK-based corporation and there are no straightforward domestic political gains in so doing.

This attack does however do a job of tarnishing the BBC’s reputation with some members of the public which can only please the Israeli government, whose own reputation within the international community could not be lower, according to the Pew Research Center. At the UN security council, this week, the US was the only country out of 15 to veto the draft resolution calling for an “unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza.

While British and international media correspondents are still calling for permission to enter Gaza to report on the situation, it is clearly not in the Israeli government’s interests to allow this. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has now confirmed he has authorised the supplying of weapons to another, purportedly anti-Hamas militia in Gaza, further muddying the waters of exactly who fired on whom.

Welcome to the latest twist in the Trump government’s media strategy that is designed to promote uncertainty while distracting from troubling events: “Oh look, a squirrel!” 

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EXPOSED! Robert F. Kennedy Jr's lies, conspericy theories and misinformation finally catches up with him.

The unqalified secretary for the Department of health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr is in the crosshairs as his tenure went from bad to worst in a span of a week, RJK Jr. and his Department put out that MAHA report which includes fake-ass fugazi multi-citations, they took out the fake citation and replaced it with more fake studies. the authors were notified that is not what their studies said and RFK Jr. and his department took our real citations and replaced them with fake once by creating fake-ass studies that don't even excist PERIOD, that appears to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MO as a disgraceful sick human being that he is. One day all of Robert K. Kennedy Jr.'s lies, conspericy theories and misinformation will comeback to bite him square in his ass because he is unfit to run the DHHS, To make matters worse, an old clip of him getting his butt handed to him on CNN has resurfaced and gone viral this week exposing him for being a massive deseased piece of shit liar. May the Lord have mercy on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s deseased soul and I hope he rots in hell.

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BREAKING NEWS! We Are FedUp!.

FedEx Express pilots stood outside the FedEx Corporation Executive Offices on Tuesday to show their frustration with the company’s refusal to provide a contract that would provide pilots with better pay and more respect.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — FedEx Express pilots stood outside the FedEx Corporation Executive Offices on Tuesday to show their frustration with the company’s refusal to provide a contract that would provide pilots with better pay and more respect.

The pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), conducted the informational picket outside the executive offices on Shady Grove Road, highlighting their beliefs that the global, Memphis-based company overworks and undervalues its employees.

The Corporation and ALPA have been embattled in protracted contract negotiations for over four years now, starting in 2021 when pilots attempted to modernize an “outdated” labor contract that was signed back in 2015.

ALPA says they reached a tentative agreement in 2023, but the pilots rejected an agreement that they say neither reflected commercial pilot industry standards nor the corporation’s business transformation efforts.

The parties have since made little progress toward an agreement under federal mediation.

“FedEx has had four years to do the right thing, but instead it has chosen to invest in shareholders over its employees,” said Capt. Jose Nieves, chair of the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council. “The pilots are done waiting. We’ve delivered through crisis and transformation, and we expect to be treated like professionals who enable corporate success.”

On the official FedEx Pilots webpage, the group quoted an excerpt from a FedEx Pilot job offer letter.

In the letter, the company states, “We appreciate the rigor involved in, and applaud you meeting our challenging hiring standards. Successful candidates contribute a wealth of knowledge and experience to our mission and help FedEx Express maintain its long-held position as the express transportation leader.”

FedEx Pilots noted that new hires are praised for meeting the company’s “challenging hiring standards,” but then are challenged to accept less pay, worse schedules, and no respect.

“I find it ironic that our guiding motto, the Purple Promise, aims ‘to make every FedEx experience outstanding,’” said Capt. Nieves. “But when it comes to investing in the people who safeguard its network operations, FedEx disappears behind that principle.”

In response to their displeasure, a line of pilots was seen standing outside the executive offices, lining Shady Grove Road while holding signs reading, “We’re FedUp,” and “Stop profits over people.”

“FedEx promised a dream job, respect, and ‘unsurpassed compensation.’ Instead, pilots are overworked, undervalued, and fighting for a fair contract after more than 4 years of negotiations,” said ALPA.

FedEx sent WREG a response from the company, stating, “We remain committed to reaching an agreement through the mediation process that is fair to our pilots, our other team members, and all FedEx stakeholders. Informational picketing is a common occurrence during negotiations and does not impact our service.”

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IN OTHER NEWS! Knicks fire Tom Thibodeau as coach after five seasons.

Fresh off their deepest playoff run in 25 years, the New York Knicks fired coach Tom Thibodeau on Tuesday

The decision comes three days after the Knicks were ousted from the Eastern Conference finals in six games by the Indiana Pacers, their longtime rivals. But it also comes after New York advanced further than expected with a relatively new core of players, knocking out the defending champion Boston Celtics in the second round.

Thibodeau, who surpassed Pat Riley earlier this season to rank fourth on the franchise list in victories, led the Knicks to back-to-back 50-win seasons for the first time since 1995. He'd been, by far, the club's most successful coach over the past two-plus decades and signed a three-year extension with the team just last summer.

"Our organization is singularly focused on winning a championship for our fans," team president Leon Rose said in a statement. "This pursuit led us to the decision to inform Tom Thibodeau that we've decided to move in another direction. We can't thank Tom enough for pouring his heart and soul into each and every day of being the New York Knicks head coach.

"... Ultimately, we made the decision we feel is best for our organization moving forward. Tom will always be part of our Knicks family and we truly wish him nothing but the best in the future."

Thibodeau had a lengthy history with the Knicks, dating back to the 1990s, when he was an assistant coach under Jeff Van Gundy. Rick Brunson, one of Thibodeau's assistant coaches, played for those Knick teams and often brought his son, Jalen -- now the franchise's superstar -- to practices and games.

After the club's season-ending defeat in Indiana, Jalen Brunson was asked about Thibodeau's job status.

"Is that a real question right now? You just asked me if I believe he's the right guy? Yes. Come on."

The Knicks upset the Celtics despite losing all four of their games to the club during the regular season -- with three of those losses coming by double digits -- and despite fielding an overhauled group.

The team's front office sent out five first-round picks for Brooklyn wing Mikal Bridges before dealing Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to Minnesota for All-NBA center Karl-Anthony Towns. The swaps left the Knicks with a bit less depth but one of the most talented starting fives in the association.

As such, Thibodeau -- long known for playing his starters big minutes, even as the league moves toward using rest more in this load-management era -- leaned heavily on his starting five, playing them far more than any other five-man group in the NBA.

New York was the veteran coach's third head coaching stop in the NBA. Before the Knicks, he coached the Chicago Bulls (2010-15) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (2016-19).

He has a .579 career win percentage as a head coach, the highest by any coach without a Finals appearance in NBA history (minimum 300 games coached), according to ESPN Research.

The Phoenix Suns have narrowed their head coaching search to two finalists from the Cleveland Cavaliers, associate coach Johnnie Bryant and assistant Jordan Ott, sources told ESPN on Monday.

Both Bryant and Ott will meet with Suns owner Mat Ishbia, CEO Josh Bartelstein and general manager Brian Gregory in Michigan later this week, sources said.

After firing Mike Budenholzer on April 14 and naming Gregory as the new GM on May 1, the Suns embarked on a comprehensive coaching search. Gregory led a multiround process that began with over 15 coaching interviews. A group of approximately eight candidates had second-round meetings before six -- Bryant, Ott, Miami's Chris Quinn, Dallas' Sean Sweeney, Oklahoma City's Dave Bliss and current staff member David Fizdale -- advanced to in-person visits with team officials last week.

Suns franchise cornerstone Devin Booker has been involved in the search process over the past seven to 10 days, sources said.

The Cavaliers had an Eastern Conference-best 64 wins this season and stand to lose one of their top assistants to the Suns. Bryant and Ott joined the Cavaliers last summer as Coach of the Year Kenny Atkinson's first hires, and both assistants are rooted in principles of toughness, grit and player development. The Cavaliers ranked first in offensive efficiency and eight in defensive efficiency this season, per ESPN Research.

The Suns have been the NBA's only true coaching vacancy for several weeks now, allowing the franchise to be patient with their search. The Suns, who went 36-46 this season, will be hiring their fourth different coach in four seasons.

Ott has also been on staffs for the Atlanta Hawks (2013-16), Brooklyn Nets (2016-22) and Los Angeles Lakers (2022-24), while Bryant has also served as an assistant for the Utah Jazz (2012-20) and New York Knicks (2020-24).

Bryant played in college at Utah from 2005 to 2008, while Ott was a video coordinator with Michigan State men's basketball program under Tom Izzo from 2008 to 2013.

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BREAKING NEWS! Kamala Harris gives clearest signal yet she will run for White House again in 2028.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris triggered further speculation over the weekend that she is not running for governor of California after she delivered a lackluster address to the Democratic state political convention. 

Harris did not attend the event in-person but sent a three-minute video address that was politely received by the audience.

In a steady, monotone voice, she spoke about the Trump administration's recent actions against universities and praised activists' efforts to fight the president's agenda.

'While this administration in Washington tries to divide us, we hear know that we are stronger when we stand together,' she said, a flashback to her 2024 campaign slogan.

Harris' failure to appear at the convention and her video address suggested she was not interested in running for governor of California and instead pursuing a return to presidential politics. 

The Democratic primary for the race is scheduled for June 2, 2026, with the general election scheduled for November.

Harris has always been popular in California, easily beating Democratic challengers in her race for Attorney General and her race for Senator of California.

Her 2020 race for president, however, failed spectacularly as she ended her campaign before the Iowa caucuses and the California primary.

Since her loss, Harris has vowed to 'stay in the fight' and organized some of her trusted aides into the organization Pioneer49, while she explores her political future.

California Democratic activists are frustrated by the lack of signals from Harris, as they are impatient to move forward with a clear candidate.

If Harris runs for governor, she will likely forego another run for president in 2028, which Democratic strategists in Washington, DC fully expect her to explore.

She continues to delay any decisions about running for governor or diving into presidential politics again, telling advisors she will made a decision in late summer. 

A third option remains, that she will forego a political career entirely and remain a paid speaker and inspirational figure for activists with the option of publishing a book of her memoirs.  

In the meantime, Harris continues to take the stage to protest the Trump administration and rally activists. 

Last week, she appeared at an event in Australia where she shared a bizarre story about her mother and spiraled into word salads when asked to speak about the importance of humility. 

Harris also appeared at the lavish Met Gala last month wearing a custom look from Off-White, designed by creative director IB Kamara, but skipped the red carpet.

The failed presidential candidate also took the stage at Emerge 20th anniversary gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to deliver the keynote speech that began late in the evening. 

'It's good to be home!' Harris laughed as she took the stage, criticizing Trump for his agenda, particularly his tariffs.

'Instead of the administration working to advance America's highest ideals, we are witnessing a wholesale abandonment of those ideals,' she said.

Trump's agenda, she said, was 'not lowering costs' and 'not making life more affordable' and 'not what they promised.'

She noted that the Trump administration was counting on the fact that fear was 'contagious.'

She also urged Democrats to find courage in the video of the San Diego Zoo elephants who responded to a recent earthquake by circling around each other.

'As soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath their feet, they got in a circle and stood next to each other to protect the most vulnerable,' she said. 'Think about it. What a powerful metaphor.'

Harris cautioned Democrats from dismissing Trump's efforts as 'chaos.'

'Understand what we are in fact witnessing is a high velocity event, where a vessel is being used for the swift implementation of an agenda that has been decades in the making,'

She urged Americans to stand against the administration with courage.

'What we are experiencing right now is exactly what they envisioned for America, right now we are living in their vision for America, but this is not a vision that American's want.'

She praised people who protested the president's agenda, including his deportation orders.

'It is not okay to detain and disappear American citizens or anyone without due process,' she said.

Harris only spoke for about 15 minutes, but it was the crowning moment for the event that helped raise money for female political candidates.