Russia carried out a large-scale drone and missile strike on Ukraine, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than a hundred.
Sen. Kennedy says the nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund is stalling the reconciliation bill funding ICE and Border Patrol enforcement.
An elderly grandmother was stabbed to death on an Atlanta train over the weekend in an unprovoked, daytime attack, authorities said.Arrest warrants indicate that the 66-year-old victim was stabbed 18 to 20 times while aboard a MARTA train Saturday, WXIA-TV reported.'There was nothing she wouldn't do for her family because her family is her everything.'John Elijah Matthews, the 25-year-old suspect, first cut the throat of victim Margaret Swan just seconds after he walked next to where she was seated on the train nearing the Oakland City MARTA station, WXIA said, citing arrest warrants. Oakland City is an Atlanta neighborhood.Video from inside the train indicates that the two never communicated, the station said, citing warrants.Video showed Swan sitting alone aboard the train at 11:21 a.m., WXIA said, adding that just before 11:25 a.m. Matthews is seen walking to the side of the train where Swan was sitting.Just 19 seconds later, Matthews "is seen walking up to [Swan] and standing just to her right," the station said, adding that several seconds later he took out a knife, opened it, and cut the victim in the throat.Warrants say Swan was screaming and trying to get up from her seat as Matthews held her and stabbed her, WXIA reported.Matthews was then seen on video "throwing [Swan] to the floor and standing near her until the train arrived at the Oakland City Station" less than two minutes later, WXIA added.Warrants indicate that when the train arrived at Oakland City, Matthews exited the train with the knife still in hand as officers rushed to the scene, the station reported.Warrants add that officers tried unsuccessful lifesaving measures on Swan, WXIA reported.The station noted in a news video that Matthews was arrested "almost immediately" after the attack and that he waived his Monday hearing.RELATED: Karoline Leavitt blasts media for 'shamefully' ignoring horrific stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Matthews does not have an address or phone number, the station said, citing warrants, and he "did not want to continue speaking with detectives" at the College Park MARTA Police Precinct.WXIA said searches of metro Atlanta court and jail records did not immediately indicate clearly whether Matthews has a prior criminal history in the area.The station added that Matthews is charged with murder in Saturday's killing.RELATED: Van Jones claims there's 'NO EVIDENCE' of racial animus in Charlotte stabbing. Audio in murder footage suggests otherwise. "My mom was the rock of her family," Swan's daughter, Shanae Sams, told WXIA. "There was nothing she wouldn't do for her family because her family is her everything."Sams added to the station that her mother's killer "didn't just take away a mom, but my children's grandmother was taken away."Swan had five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, WXIA reported, adding that her daughter said she used the train frequently.A MARTA spokesperson told the station that "this appears to be a senseless act of violence, and our thoughts are with the victim's loved ones and those who witnessed this horrific incident."The agency added to WXIA that "we understand the concern and fear incidents like this can cause for those who ride and work on the MARTA system. MARTA Police are actively investigating and remain committed to the safety and security of our riders and employees."The station's news video added that with the FIFA World Cup soccer matches coming to Atlanta this month, concern for safety aboard MARTA trains has increased.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
The suspected shooter was found dead near a bridge with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities say.
Supporters of Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, and then saw their lives fall apart in criminal charges, lost jobs and shattered families, had a brief glimmer of hope after the president’s Justice Department agreed to a $1.8 billion “slush fund” that would compensate them for their troubles.But late Monday, the president snatched it away, and longtime GOP campaign consultant Rick Wilson was ready and willing to taunt them for getting “played” by the president. Again.Late Monday, Axios reported that the DOJ, on Trump’s orders, was pulling the plug on going forward with the $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after massive blowback from Republican lawmakers who raked acting Attorney General Todd Blanche over the coals during a closed-door meeting last week.With the fund reportedly “dead,” Wilson used his Substack platform to pummel Trump’s MAGA fans for trusting the president again."You stormed the Capitol. You used bear spray on a cop, shat in the Rotunda, hunted for Mike Pence, or you just milled around in your Temu Tactical gear demanding Nancy Pelosi’s whereabouts…and you got caught. And many, many of you. rightly. went to jail. Let’s be clear: you f——— deserved it,” he wrote.“But the last couple weeks have been good, right? Because the word went out. There was going to be money. Real money. A $1.8 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund,' a glittering, gold-leaf taxpayer-funded piñata, and you, patriot, were going to swing the bat and collect. And then, on a Friday, one judge named Leonie Brinkema picked up a pen and the whole thing seized up like a Cybertruck in a car wash," he continued before bluntly pointing out, ”You should have seen this coming, because the pattern is older than most of your felonies. Welcome to the Trump Suckers Club, gentlemen. The dues are steep and the membership is permanent."According to Wilson, Trump's DOJ deal was just another in a long line of promises built on bluster and little else, that included his plan to get Mexico to pay for his border wall that US taxpayers ended being on the hook for, as well as, "He told you he’d release the Epstein files. For the last 2 months he’s been telling you the very real Iran War is over, done, settled, done and dusted.""Here’s the part where I’m supposed to feel for you, and I want to be honest about my own limitations as a human being: I don’t. I give exactly zero f---s for your imaginary suffering and well-deserved loss," he pronounced."I have no emotion for you beyond contempt and revulsion. Not even a little. Because none of you were owed a dime. The fund was never about justice. It was a slush fund, a loyalty bribe, taxpayer money laundered through a fake lawsuit Trump filed against his own government to compensate the people who beat cops with flagpoles in his name," he wrote. "Your god-emperor, your tariff-wielding strongman, your two-scoops Caesar, got stopped cold by one Clinton appointee in one Virginia courtroom on one ordinary Friday afternoon and just rolled over. One judge said maintain the status quo, and the whole $1.8 billion edifice just deflated. No fight. No appeal that mattered yet. Just a slow, sad hiss.""So pour one out, fellas. Frame the indictment. Hang the mugshot. You earned those. The money was always going to be someone else’s. It’s always going to be someone else’s. That’s the deal, and it’s the only deal he’s ever actually kept," he concluded.
Israeli drones have killed at least eight people in Lebanon despite an announcement Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump that both Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop fighting. Trump’s intervention came as Israel threatened new strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, leading Iran to suspend indirect negotiations with the U.S. to protest Israel’s expanding military offensive in Lebanon. Since March 2, Israel has killed more than 3,400 people in Lebanon while seizing large swaths of the country and displacing about one-fifth of the population. Lebanon is “a weak state, it doesn’t have a lot of leverage, and a lot of people are concerned,” says Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. “They sort of feel beholden to the regional and global powers on their fate.”
President Donald Trump attacked several of his political foes, whom he called "corrupt and irrelevant," in a raving late-night posting spree on Truth Social. Trump is routinely up late at night posting images of himself or firing off long-winded attacks against his political enemies. In the past, he's posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed, threatened to wipe out the Iranian civilization, and reposted multiple conspiracy theories about how the 2020 general election was allegedly stolen from him, even though his lawyers couldn't prove that point in more than 60 cases. The president continued that streak on Monday night, posting more than two dozen times on Truth Social. Some of the posts were standard endorsements of MAGA candidates while others seemed to come from a darker place in Trump's mind. In one post, Trump lashed out at the way the media has covered his war in Iran. "If Iran surrenders ... the Failing New York Times, The China Street Journal (WSJ!), Corrupt and now Irrelevant CNN, and all other members of the Fake News Media, will headline that Iran had a Masterful and Brilliant Victory over The United States of America, it wasn’t even close. The Dumacrats and Media have totally lost their way. They have gone absolutely CRAZY!!!" Trump wrote. He also attacked several Republican congressmen who lost their primary races to people who are more closely aligned with Trump. "In the last two weeks I've taken out many bad Political 'Leaders' and Pundits including Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lightweight 'Congressman' Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, REALLY DUMB Stephen Colbert of CBS, and others," Trump wrote in one post. "My score, for two weeks, is 38-0, with three more limping Late Night Talk Show Hosts, including Low Ratings Bill Maher and his Fake "Laughing Machine," to go. It is my Honor to be working so hard for our Country!"Trump also attacked New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who successfully prosecuted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide a hush-money payment he gave to adult actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an affair he had with her before the 2016 general election. "Alvin Bragg created a new crime just for 'Donald Trump.' He took misdemeanors that didn’t exist, and turned them into felonies that never existed," Trump wrote. "They have a “charge” for Donald Trump that nobody has ever been charged with in the History of Manhattan, and they didn’t charge Hillary Clinton’s lawyer who became the Chief Prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, and the Judge’s Daughter was the Chief Fundraiser for Kamala Harris and Sleepy Joe Biden. Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians!"If all of that wasn't enough, Trump also called for Canada to become the 51st U.S. state in a post where he shared an article about the country falling into a recession.
The Israeli military launched deadly new strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday after reporting attacks from Hezbollah overnight, despite President Donald Trump saying both sides had agreed to de-escalate after Iran threatened to pull out of peace talks
Donald Trump took a double-barreled shellacking last week.