A trio of armed, masked males threatened a Maryland homeowner in his driveway on Halloween night, police said — but it turns out the victim had a deadly treat for them at the ready.
Baltimore County Police said the resident indicated he was sitting in the driveway of his residence in the 10000 block of Greenside Drive in Cockeysville when the suspects — armed with a handgun — approached him around 10:40 p.m.
'We were sleeping, and I woke up and saw blue lights in the window. So I got up and saw and there were like eight or nine police cars.'
The resident told officers the three males threatened him, police said.
But the trio likely didn't take into account that one never knows these days who is armed for self-defense at any given time.
Indeed, police said the resident "brandished his own weapon and fired at the suspects."
Police said the suspects fled the location, and the resident called 911 to report the incident.
Officers began to check the area and found one of the suspects dead a short distance away, police said, adding that he was identified as 20-year-old Amon Walker.
The two other suspects, both adult males, also were found after seeking treatment for their injuries at local hospitals.
A loaded handgun was also recovered, police said, and it is believed to have belonged to the suspects.
Police said there is no active threat to the community, and the department’s Homicide Unit responded and is investigating the circumstances of this incident.
While police said in their news release that the three males were wearing masks, WBAL-TV reported that the males were "wearing Halloween-style masks."
Neighbor Monish Gariwala told the station "on Halloween night, this is a very active neighborhood. There are, like, 300 kids."
He added to WBAL that "we were sleeping, and I woke up and saw blue lights in the window. So I got up and saw and there were like eight or nine police cars."
Gariwala also noted "thank God" that the incident "happened later. There were so many kids here [earlier]," according to the station.
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The president has blasted a liberal political action committee in Kansas for allegedly handing out "monetary incentives" to voters just ahead of Election Day.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) said in a press release Saturday that he sent a cease and desist letter to BlueStem Kansas for allegedly "offering gift cards to voters for voting."
'We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!'
Kobach said a voter claimed that a person identifying as a canvasser for BlueStem offered the voter a $5 gift card.
"Under K.S.A. 25-2409, election bribery includes giving, offering, or agreeing to give a benefit in exchange for voting at a public election," he wrote. "It is a severity level 7, nonperson felony. Federal law, 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), separately makes it a crime to pay or offer to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes federal candidates."
Trump blasted the group in a post on Truth Social.
"I have just been informed by the Great Attorney General of Kansas, Kris Kobach, that a Radical Left PAC operative was caught on camera going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes," he wrote Sunday.
"We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!" he added.
Kobach said he requested that the group preserve communications related to the alleged election incentives, which is a step taken in anticipation of possible legal action.
"As attorney general and before that as secretary of state, I have prosecuted many cases of voter fraud in Kansas, including voting by noncitizens and double voting," said Kobach in a statement.
"But I never thought that a group in Kansas would be so brazen as to go door-to-door three days before a general election offering voters monetary incentives," he added. "This sounds like Chicago in the 1950s, not Kansas in the 2020s. As long as I am attorney general, those who violate our election laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
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Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas accused Democrats of direct involvement in the scheme.
"Chuck Schumer’s Democrats tried to buy out Kansas through ads, but when that wasn’t working they have resorted to pure bribery," wrote Marshall on social media. "Please report any illegal election activity to the Attorney General‘s office!"
BlueStem Kansas says on its website that it advocates for health care access and gun control and opposes school choice in the form of vouchers.
Marshall is losing by a narrow margin to his Democratic challenger, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch average of polls.
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There will never be another Norm Macdonald, which is why Netflix's new documentary, "Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald," has been received so well — especially by BlazeTV hosts Dave Landau and Stu Burguiere.
Landau, who is a comedian himself, said the film was a reminder that Macdonald “really is my favorite comic.”
“I loved everything he did,” he says, reminiscing on his starring role on "Saturday Night Live's" Weekend Update.
“But this whole thing,” he continues, “this thing covers his entire life and kind of like the mystery that he was, including having cancer for a decade and not telling anyone.”
And when Norm did speak about a battle with cancer, he pretended he was talking about his uncle instead of himself. He also claimed that he dropped out of high school and didn’t go to college.
“He would say, look, I didn’t go to college. I dropped out of high school, and you look and you know, they found something that said he was a genius that actually got out of high school at 16 and went to college early,” Landau explains.
“I mean, he really was amazing,” Stu Burguiere comments.
“He’s one of those guys that … the comedy was so important to him,” he continues. “It just didn’t matter what else was going on. He was always able to push through it. I mean, you go back to, obviously, him getting fired from 'SNL.'”
Macdonald appeared on David Letterman’s show after getting fired and openly discussed it.
“And it’s one of the greatest appearances of all time because the way he handled it. He has this giant, big smile, his goofy smile, on his face the entire time as he’s talking about his career dissolving,” Stu says.
“He was so funny about it, and he just was able to do that constantly,” he adds.
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A leftist female University of Michigan student was caught on video physically attacking a conservative Jewish influencer Sunday during a reported free-speech event on campus.
The victim — Liz Benichou, who uses the handle "basedinmalibu" on X and Instagram — was apparently shoved to the ground in a violent outburst by the female student who soon was arrested and then hollered the following while in handcuffs: "I should have f**king killed you while I had the f**king chance."
The female asked the arresting officer, 'What the f**k are you going to do to me? Because I hit a f**king dumb-ass bitch in the face?'
Benichou told Fox News she was hosting an open debate when a female approached, began shouting, and allegedly struck another conservative influencer in the face with her phone before turning on her.
The other conservative influencer was online creator and commentator "The Older Millennial," also known as Joseph Anthony Redden, who was sitting at a foldout table with signs that read "Is Islam evil?" and "Is Islam compatible with the West?" Newsweek said.
The female approached the table asking, "Where’s your permit?" saying the setup was "f**king stupid" and clapping in Redden’s face and shouting, the magazine noted. Redden told police in that moment and later claimed on X that the female struck him. You can view video of that interaction here, after which the female complains about "anti-Muslim people."
Benichou told Fox News that soon the female "came up toward me, and I told her, 'You would not be able to do this in Iran,'" referencing freedom of speech and pointing to the Iranian government's treatment of protesters.
Then Benichou and fellow conservative influencer Cam Higby challenged the female over women's freedoms in Iran, the cable news network added — particularly with respect to how she was dressed and showing "skin."
Benichou can be heard on video — as the female stands directly in front of her — asking onlookers, "Am I wrong? If she walked around like this in Iran, what would happen to her?"
"And then she just lunged," Benichou told Fox News.
The female used both hands to knock Benichou to the ground and then tried to stomp her before a male intervened and pulled the attacker away from Benichou, video appeared to show.
“Don’t f**king talk to me like that!” the female hollered at Benichou while trying to get back to her, according to video. “You wanna f**king get over here?! F**king get over here, bitch!”
The female momentarily escaped the grasp of a police officer, but the officer soon grabbed the female and got her on the ground and began handcuffing her and telling her "don't resist."
“Instant f**king karma, bitch,” one onlooker observed as the arrest took place.
Another onlooker commented, "She’s f**king rabid."
The female asked the arresting officer, "What the f**k are you going to do to me? Because I hit a f**king dumb-ass bitch in the face?"
As the female was being escorted to a police vehicle, she continued shouting and cursing at Benichou, Newsweek said.
"I'd do it again every f**king time, you stupid f**king c**t!" video showed the female hollering before adding, "I should have f**king killed you while I had the f**king chance."
Benichou on Monday told "Fox & Friends" she injured her lower back as a result of the attack — but that she won't be silenced.
"It will definitely not dissuade me," she added to the cable news network.
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Taylor Sharp — Benichou’s manager and the CEO of Liberty Under Fire USA, a conservative youth organization — told Mediaite that Benichou plans on pressing charges against the arrested student.
The University of Michigan Police Department told Fox News that a student was taken into custody, processed, and released — and that the case "will be forwarded to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office for review."
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The confrontation comes as Michigan's closely watched Senate race brings political and cultural divisions into sharper focus ahead of the midterms.Police noted to Newsweek that the attack took place during an "unpermitted political event."
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