A shop owner in Albuquerque, New Mexico, intervened and shot an alleged burglar at a neighboring business Sunday morning around 5:30 a.m.
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Business inflation expectations fell to 1.93 percent in February, matching the average level from 2015 to 2019 and marking the lowest reading since November 2020.
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In a field of 12 announced candidates, Republican Steve Hilton leads Democrats and Republicans in the upcoming race for California governor.
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Vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer made record profits pushing experimental drugs during the pandemic that were nowhere near as "safe and effective" as marketed.
Although their vaccines allegedly left some Americans badly injured and allegedly killed others, Big Pharma giants were largely protected from civil lawsuits as the result of special liability protections that were repeatedly extended by the Biden administration.
'When it comes to vaccines, and in many cases the COVID vaccine, the rules are rigged.'
Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) introduced legislation last week that would amend the Public Health Service Act to strip the liability shield from vaccine manufacturers.
"If a drug hurts someone, you can sue the company in court," said Paul, a licensed doctor of medicine. "You can hold them responsible through the normal legal process. But when it comes to vaccines, and in many cases the COVID vaccine, the rules are rigged: You're funneled into a federal no-fault program that limits damages, restricts your options, and — in many cases — leaves people without real justice. That's cronyism."
Presently, persons seeking compensation for injuries sustained as the result of a covered vaccine must file a petition with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which is touted as a "no-fault alternative to the traditional legal system for resolving vaccine injury petitions."
Those specifically injured by one of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines — which were in many jurisdictions required to remain employed, eat in public, stay in school, or visit loved ones — must file a petition with the related Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.
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Parents, legal guardians, and legal representatives of those individuals who were killed by the vaccines — the U.S. Food and Drug Administration admitted in December that "at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination" — can file on behalf of the decedents.
The catch is that suffering an injury or dying around the time of the receipt of a COVID jab "is not sufficient, by itself, to prove that an injury is the direct result of a covered countermeasure."
Since there is a high bar for proving causation, few Americans' petitions are successful.
'Pharma giants are hiding behind legal protections to avoid being sued.'
CICP data shows that as of Feb. 1, a total of 14,102 COVID-19 claims have been filed, 10,944 alleging injuries or death from COVID-19 vaccines and 3,158 alleging injuries or death from other COVID-19 countermeasures.
Of the total, 6,556 were rejected outright. Of the 6,649 for which decisions were made, only 93 claims were found eligible for compensation — and of the 93, only 44 petitioners have actually received compensation.
Sen. Paul's End the Vaccine Carveout Act, which was co-sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and serves as a companion bill to the legislation of the same name introduced in the House in July by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), would reform the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program by allowing vaccine-injured individuals or the legal representatives of those killed by vaccines to pursue direct civil action in state or federal court without having to first try their chances at the no-fault federal system.
Presently, vaccine-injured Americans are generally required to file a petition through VICP before seeking judicial relief. The Republican bill would eliminate that barrier to possible justice.
The bill would also exclude COVID-19 vaccines from the definition of "covered countermeasures," thereby ending the immunity shield that has for years protected vaccine manufacturers, distributors, and administration from vaccine injury claims.
Lee stated, "Pharma giants are hiding behind legal protections to avoid being sued by Americans experiencing serious vaccine side effects."
"Many of these patients were forced to get vaccinated or lose their jobs during the pandemic and are now dealing with permanent and very serious complications," Lee continued. "Our bill will end these unconstitutional vaccine carveouts so that all Americans can receive the justice they deserve and hold Big Pharma accountable."
Weeks after the 2024 presidential election, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra extended the liability shield for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers through Dec. 31, 2029.
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Eileen Gu laughed in a reporter's face over his "ridiculous" question about her missed opportunities for earning gold in this year's Games.
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President Donald Trump and Venezuela's deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro became unwitting stars in several Carnival parade festivities this year.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday in a landmark lawsuit alleging that social media platforms were deliberately designed to addict young users and harm their mental health.
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WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of leaked emails from the personal account of John Podesta, former President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, in late 2016.
The decentralized army of sleuths that subsequently combed over the leaked emails found not only damning insights into Hillary Clinton and her doomed presidential campaign but odd messages about pizza, hot dogs, ice cream, and other foods.
'842 occurrences of the word pizza, which seems like a lot.'
The recurring references to food in non-culinary contexts prompted some to theorize that they were code words related to pedophilia and human trafficking — a theory that the mainstream media and so-called fact-checkers emphasized was "dangerous," "fake news," and, in essence, a "moral panic."
New York Magazine, one of the publications that strenuously criticized the so-called Pizzagate theory nine years ago, suggested in the wake of the new Jeffrey Epstein documents' release that "pizza" might be a code word, after all.
Dan Brooks, writing for New York Magazine, noted that the latest trove of Epstein files published by the Department of Justice "contains 842 occurrences of the word pizza, which seems like a lot. By comparison, the word hamburger appears only 190 times, while the phrase 'sex with children' appears 20 times."
Brooks admitted that "some of the pizza-related material seems pretty weird."
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Not only did Epstein appear to have automated alerts reminding him to deliver a certain individual pizza, but he was asked on more than one occasion if individuals could have a "quick pizza" together in his absence.
One email said, "I wanted to let you know that the crew really enjoyed the pizza today. Thank you for letting us do that."
Another message from a redacted sender stated, “This is better than a Chinese cookie! Let's go for pizza and grape soda again. No one else can understand."
Additional emails carry subject lines such as “The Pizza Monster!” and include more peculiar uses of the word.
“You mean radiating a soft glow with the look of bliss and excitement. Yeah, that's the pizza...” one message reads.
"These recent Epstein materials do make the financier seem strangely interested in pizza and unusually committed to having it delivered to other people," added Brooks.
There are also recurring references to "pizza and grape soda" in the child sex offender's texts and emails.
Despite the strangeness of the exchanges, a photograph in a text conversation between Epstein and his urologist appears to indicate that on at least one occasion, they were actually discussing pizza and grape soda.
While there has been plenty of speculation in recent weeks about the pizza references, particularly because they appear in both the Epstein and Podesta files, the term "cream cheese," which appears 196 times throughout the Epstein messages, has also raised eyebrows.
In one exchange, a participant wrote, "Lol, I don’t know if cream cheese and baby are on the same level," alongside discussions of scheduling activities that some observers say raise further concern. The phrase also appears in other unsettling contexts, including "cream cheese baby."
The use of cheese and pizza imagery in reference to pedophilia and child abuse is not limited to so-called Pizzagate conspiracy theorists.
In 2020, the Telegraph, a U.K.-based newspaper, reported that a parents' group working to curb the dissemination of child sex abuse material online allegedly found that cheese and pizza emojis were being used as stand-ins for "CP," meaning "child porn."
The founder of the group, a London woman identified only as India, indicated that in some cases, individuals using the emojis shared images of children scraped from parents' social media accounts.
"There are pictures of little boys aged 5 or 6 on the beach in their swimming trunks and chances are that picture was taken by their parents on their holiday," said India. "Somehow that picture has gotten into their hands."
Brooks, prickled by recent declarations by Redditors and others that at least one core Pizzagate claim might have been accurate all along, stated, "If Epstein and his friends did use pizza as a code word for sex, that wouldn’t mean that the original Pizzagate conspiracy theory was correct — even if it was also the case that pizza was a sexual code word in the Podesta emails."
After spending the bulk of his article entertaining the possibility that "a syndicate of pedophiliac celebrities, financiers, and their urologists," equipped with code words, committed "unimaginable acts of cruelty," Brooks spends his final paragraphs attacking those who made similar claims nearly a decade ago.
The NY Mag contributor suggested that such "conspiracists" — not the allegedly vampiric cosmopolitan elites who might refer to their preferred victim types with fast-food references — are "one of the most terrifying forces in 21st-century America."
Having turned his ire away from the dead pedophile and his associates to those Americans searching for justice and accountability, Brooks concluded his article by smearing American democracy as a "well-documented conspiracy of morons."
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A female tennis player says she is retiring from the sport because of its "hostile" culture that has resulted in death threats, insults, and poor self-esteem.
Destanee Aiava announced she is leaving the sport at the end of the season, after having peaked at No. 147 in the world in 2017, when she was just 17 years old.
'... a culture that's racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hostile to anyone who doesn't fit the mould.'
The Australian departed with a scathing post on her Instagram page, criticizing her soon-to-be former sport for taking away her family, her health, and her self-worth.
"2026 will be my final year on tour playing professional tennis," the 25-year-old wrote.
After asking if everything she sacrificed for the sport "was actually worth the cost," the tennis player listed all the reasons she has kept playing over the years despite of her distress, concluding, "In other words tennis was my toxic boyfriend."
"It also took things from me," she continued. "My relationship with my body. My health. My family. My self worth. Would I do it all again? I really don't know."
Then Aiava got even more direct and a lot more vulgar:
"I want to say a ginormous f**k you to everyone in the tennis community who's ever made me feel less than."
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"F**k you to every single gambler who's sent me hate or death threats. F**k you to the people who sit behind screens on social media, commenting on my body, my career or whatever the f**k they want to nitpick," Aiava went on.
The tennis player, who is of Samoan descent, launched into criticisms of her sport, seemingly giving it every negative label she could.
"And f**k you to a sport that hides behind so-called class and gentlemanly values. Behind the white outfits and traditions is a culture that's racist, misogynistic, homophobic and hostile to anyone who doesn't fit the mould. "
Aiava broadened her explanation in an interview with Australia's "ABC News Breakfast" and host Catherine Murphy.
"I experienced a lot of racism from parents, people I was playing; just comments at the back of the court and even to this day, I'm still getting racist comments [in] DMs and everything. So yeah, it just, it was never-ending," Aiava told the host. She added that when she was a young girl who was simply "doing her best," she faced "constant comments that are racist" as well.
Aiava expanded on her body issues as it relates to tennis, which she said were based on the people around her and "seeing other girls in this sport."
She noted that she has always had issues with food, and being "not really surrounded by many women" like herself, her bad relationship with food only got worse.
The tennis player concluded by agreeing with the host when asked if governing bodies in tennis need to "fight harder for female players."
Aiava blamed the governing bodies for prioritizing making money from major tournaments over the needs of tennis players.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that the latest round of talks with the United States in Geneva yielded a mutual understanding of “guiding principles” for even more talks.
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Celebrities should not be claiming they live under fascism while attending a film festival with a private security detail, actor Jamie Kennedy stated this week.
Kennedy, a staple in Hollywood who has starred in the "Scream" franchise and made appearances in hit shows like "Entourage," called out Hollywood celebrities over their constant description of the United States as an authoritarian state.
'Let's adhere to the laws of what we have, right? Get rid of criminals.'
Kennedy hopped on to Tuesday's episode of the "Trying Not To Die" podcast hosted by Jack Osbourne, son of late rockstar Ozzy Osbourne.
A self-proclaimed "tired" Kennedy said he has become fed up with Hollywood elites preaching against Immigration and Customs Enforcement from exotic locations.
"People are protesting ICE. OK. And I understand the situation is, it's a crazy situation. But when you have actors from the red carpet of an award show at the Beverly Hilton — I'm talking about all of them — and they're on there saying all of this stuff about, 'We're under a fascist regime. We're in authoritarianism,' bro!" Kennedy exclaimed in disbelief. "It's insanity."
Kennedy pointed to celebrities at film festivals who are heckling from behind the safety of armed guards.
"You can't say you're under authoritarian rule when you're literally being authoritarian. You can't say from the f**king back of, like, 20 MMA Secret Service agents that are protecting you."
Osbourne jumped in, adding that if the celebrities were actually living under "an authoritarian government," they "wouldn't be able to say" their piece.
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The 55-year-old Kennedy begged celebrities to "get on the front lines" and away from the Sundance Film Festival if they care so much about current events. He was likely referencing Hollywood elites making extreme statements about ICE in January, which included actor Edward Norton comparing the agency to the "gestapo."
The Sundance attendees even broke from their festivities for a 10-minute protest at one point.
"You're protesting the people that are trying to, in theory, they're basically just trying to get rid of the criminals. Is it a perfect system? No! But I'm not there. But basically, let's adhere to the laws of what we have, right? Get rid of criminals."
Kennedy wondered how certain celebrities could justify calling the police when they are in danger since they are consistently denigrating law enforcement.
"What I'm just saying is, like, people haven't got a taste of the whole world to understand how good we have it in this country," Kennedy added. He then asked celebrities to "shut the f**k up!"
Immigration and documentationCiting a recent poll, Osbourne said that over 60% of Americans are in favor of how ICE is operating, in spite of what "the news is throwing" at them. "It's definitely more than that," Osbourne said, revealing the polling was from a left-wing source.
After showcasing extensive knowledge in law enforcement and firearms, Osbourne came out against illegal immigration, saying "absolutely" to the idea that a swath of criminals were let in during the Biden administration, when millions of immigrants poured across the border illegally.
Osbourne, originally from London, said he did not think it was fair for illegal immigrants to skip the process he and others have gone through. This included a lengthy visa process, 10 years with a green card, and a citizenship test, he explained.
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Hollywood homelessThe two men spent significant time discussing the conditions of Los Angeles and Hollywood, particularly as it pertains to taxation and homelessness.
"There's not just bodies in the street, bro. It looks like they're dead," Kennedy explained, adding that he has seen people using heroin in broad daylight.
"We have to use common sense because the psychos have taken over," he said.
Osbourne shared his own stories, saying that his children go to a school that is mere feet from a homeless encampment under a bridge that he has complained about numerous times. The podcaster was baffled at the conditions near the school due to the sheer amount he pays in taxes.
"No one's going to change," he said of California's elites. "And it comes down to the fires. Didn't the fires teach you that?"
Osbourne then offered the following conclusion about woke celebrities: "Half these people at the f**king awards, all their houses burned to the ground because of f**king stupid people in charge," yet they are still playing along.
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I recently ran a rather grueling race in Cape Town, a city ranked the world’s most stressful place to visit. By the end of my stay, I understood why.
Race morning brought cold Atlantic air. Table Mountain stood like a fortress. The scene was impossibly beautiful. Then the warnings began.
Julius Malema, the deranged leader of the openly Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters, has led crowds in chanting 'Kill the Boer,' the Afrikaans term for farmer.
“Stay where the crowds are after you finish,” an organizer told us.
A gray-haired runner, tying his never-before-worn Asics, gave me a knowing look, the kind that said "enjoy yourself, but stay alert." The gun fired. We surged forward. And Cape Town revealed itself in fragments.
The route hugged the ocean. Waves crashed against huge rocks. Sunlight rippled across the bay. Spectators shouted encouragement from spotless sidewalks. Cyclists zipped by in neon helmets. In Sea Point and Camps Bay, Cape Town looks effortlessly affluent: palm trees, clean promenades, and cafés filled with people sipping espressos. You could be forgiven for thinking the warnings were overstated. They weren’t. If anything, they were understated.
Razor wire on the RivieraSouth Africa’s “Mother City” lives with staggering levels of violent crime. Armed robberies are frequent. Carjackings happen in broad daylight, averaging more than four an hour. Drivers slow at traffic lights but leave space ahead, ready to bolt. Doors lock automatically. Security companies advertise response times the way pizzerias advertise delivery. Sexual assault remains widespread, not just among women but also among children. In the Western Cape alone, nearly 2,000 sexual offenses against minors were recorded in a single quarter last year. The numbers are sobering; the anxiety is constant.
Security is everywhere. High walls ring homes like fortresses. Electric fencing hums overhead. Razor wire catches the light. The message needs no translation.
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Gang warfareA few hours before I arrived in the so-called cultural capital, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the deployment of soldiers to help fight criminal gangs, a clear sign that police can no longer contain the violence.
And violence is everywhere. Between April and September last year, an average of 63 people were murdered each day. In parts of the Western Cape, especially around Cape Town, gang warfare has become part of daily life. Children are caught in crossfire. Streets fall under the influence of savage syndicates. The gangs, armed with high-powered weapons and machetes, have grown bolder. Why wouldn’t they? Ramaphosa himself noted that soldiers aren’t trained for community policing. Their deployment now underscores the depth of the crisis.
In Gauteng province, illegal miners known as zama zamas run riot. Armed and operating in abandoned shafts, they have built criminal networks around illicit gold extraction. Residents describe intimidation, forced displacement, and operations typical of paramilitary units, not opportunistic gangs.
Existential threatRamaphosa has called violent crime “the most immediate threat to our democracy.” He’s right. It is. When criminal groups control territory, extract revenue, and outgun police, the problem is no longer confined to law enforcement. In truth, it becomes a contest over authority itself — an existential struggle South Africa knows all too well, a divided nation once again on edge.
These divisions didn’t appear overnight. Apartheid enforced separation with clinical precision. Its architects portrayed the system not as hatred but as “separate development,” claiming that divided populations couldn’t share power without conflict.
Whites were a small minority, and universal suffrage meant irreversible political defeat. Afrikaners carried the memory of previous conflicts, including the concentration camps in which thousands of their women and children died. They watched postcolonial upheaval unfold elsewhere in Africa and reasoned that without firm control, the country would descend into all-out anarchy.
Set aside outrage and judgment for a moment, and the logic reads as cautious, defensive realism. They believed strict separation would prevent barbarity, preserve a functioning economy, and protect a vulnerable minority from domination. In their minds, it was a matter of survival, not ideology. It’s easy to dismiss the apartheid movement as pure racism, a low-IQ explanation that fits neatly on a placard. But it overlooks the deeper dread that shaped it.
Farmers under siegeHistory didn’t end with apartheid’s fall. The country remains marked by mistrust, hatred, and absolute terror. Last year, President Trump suggested that white farmers were facing vicious reprisals. Violence against farmers is real and terrifying for those who live beyond the reach of towns and patrols. Farm attacks — home invasions, assaults, and killings — occur with regularity. Many farmers live far from towns or patrols, isolated and vulnerable when attackers strike.
Julius Malema, the deranged leader of the openly Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters, has led crowds in chanting “Kill the Boer,” the Afrikaans term for farmer. Thousands raise their hands like guns as they echo the refrain. Supporters describe it as a chant from the struggle era. Others, a little more grounded in reality, hear something far more dangerous. They hear language that calls for genocide. After all, what is being proposed is the elimination of people defined by a particular skin color. When I asked a white taxi driver whether such fears were exaggerated, he answered without hesitation: “No.”
At the crossroads ... againSouth Africa is a beautiful country, arguably one of the most beautiful places on earth. Yet it can feel deeply intimidating, largely because it is. A tension hangs in the air, present even in the quietest moments. In many communities, it’s considered reckless not to keep multiple loaded firearms at home, ready to be used at any moment, day or night. Safety is discussed in near wartime terms. Even a simple trip to the store can feel like a roll of the dice, especially for white families.
Does South Africa have the capacity to weather the mounting unrest? I hope so, but I wouldn’t bet on it. A nation intimately familiar with bloodshed once again stands at a crossroads.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is fighting to get the gay Pride flag recognized at the same level as the U.S. flag in the eyes of the federal government — which would give it similar protections as the American flag, military flags, and POW/MIA flags.
“The Trump administration’s removal of the Pride rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument is a deeply outrageous action that must be reversed. It’s an effing disgrace,” Schumer began.
“When the Trump administration ripped the Pride flag down, it was a direct attack on this community. An attempt to chip away at hard-won civil rights. So today we’re fighting back and taking action,” he continued.
“I am introducing legislation to designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag in America. And that means it can be flown here and everywhere else. And no one, no one, no one can take it down,” he added.
“Wow, tackling the big issues of the day,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” annoyed. “Thank you, Chuck Schumer, for doing the heavy lifting to help out average Americans.”
“You’re not doing anything to get rid of all of the illegal criminals that are in our country. In fact, you’re fighting it at every turn. You’re not doing anything to address inflation. It was the Republicans that did that. You’re not doing anything to protect children from harm,” she continues.
“You are not doing anything to make Americans' lives better. But thank God you’re fighting over a flag. … It’s actually despicable how disgusting these people are,” she adds, pointing out that Democrats weren’t this defensive and loving of gay people all that long ago.
“Schumer himself was against gay marriage back in the day. He even voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, which of course defined marriage as one man and one woman. They were all in agreement on that,” she adds.
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