A new report shows how dangerous groups exploit legal protections.
Intercept staffers break down the latest election news and the front groups fueling the midterms. The post AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends appeared first on The Intercept.
A Florida man convicted of fatally stabbing his cousin’s girlfriend and the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was put to death Thursday evening, the seventh person executed by the state this year.
Students are claiming emotional trauma from their middle school teacher apparently hanging a black baby doll by an electrical cord from the television in her Florida classroom.The bizarre incident was caught on video and was widely circulated before the art teacher was fired from the job at Barrington Middle School in Lithia.'They should not have to sit in the classroom and worry if they're going to see images that can terrorize them for life.'Nina Williams, the parent of the student who recorded the teacher, wants her to face serious consequences."I want her teaching certificate gone," Williams said. "I don't want her to be able to practice in another state. I don't want her to be able to do what she did to my child and the other many children in that classroom to any other children."Williams posted the video on Tuesday to social media, where it quickly went viral."She needs to be charged for it and license removed. Not be around kids at all," said Aracelis Perez, the parent of another student who recorded the teacher throwing the doll away after the hanging.After much outrage, the district said the teacher had been terminated immediately on Wednesday."Our school counselors and administrators will continue to be available to meet with any students at Barrington Middle School who have concerns or need additional support," reads the statement from the district.Among those outraged was Hillsborough NAACP President Yvette Lewis."They should not have to sit in the classroom and worry if they're going to see images that can terrorize them for life," Lewis said. "If you don't know your history, you're bound to repeat it, and it was clear that this teacher did not know the history. Because if you knew your history and you knew what that meant and how it will invoke fear or intimidation to African-Americans, you would have never done it."Lewis went on to claim that the incident might not have happened if Florida state officials had not removed certain African-American history books from schools.The teacher, whose name is Karen Savage, did not return requests for comment from WTLV-TV.RELATED: NY middle school teacher fired over 'racist' joke allegedly made to two students about slavery The district said the Florida Department of Education's Office of Professional Practice Services is investigating whether her teaching certificate should be revoked.WTSP-TV asked the FBI if it was investigating the case, but the agency refused to confirm or disconfirm any investigation.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Lee Middle School teacher Judith Clark couldn't get a student to stop talking -- so she made a classmate do the dirty work, authorities said.
The sister of the head of a company that is accused of having close ties to Cuban government operations has been arrested in Miami, federal authorities announced.
Few actions on the part of the Trump administration have drawn as much bipartisan scorn as the DOJ-IRS settlement that aims to create a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which critics say amounts to a “slush fund” for January 6 rioters. Now a legal expert has laid bare the “shameful spin” underlying the supposed justification of the fund. At the core of the administration’s case is the assertion that the IRS leaked President Donald Trump’s tax returns during his first term, allegedly with the intention of smearing his reputation. As Southern District of New York US Attorney Jay Claton framed it on Thursday, the IRS “intentionally” released Trump’s returns to “embarrass” him while he was a “private citizen”— "they leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him.”But as MSNOW legal analyst and former Southern District of New York Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg pointed out, absolutely none of that was true.‘'They' didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns,” Greenberg posted to X. “An IRS contractor did — along with thousands of other tax returns — during Trump’s first term. [Former President Joe] Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.”As Greenberg suggested, Clayton and many other Trump allies are either misrepresenting the facts or outright lying. Trump wasn’t a “private citizen” when the leak occurred, but the president of the country. The IRS had nothing to do with the leak, and therefore the assertion that the agency was attempting to “embarrass” Trump is nonsensical. Trump wasn’t “intentionally” targeted by the actual leaker even, who released thousands of tax returns at the same time. What’s more, the leaker was already punished by the Biden administration. Justice has been served for what crime was committed.Greenberg isn’t alone in recognizing the contradictions and incoherence of the Trump administration’s case. Speaking to PBS, former IRS commissioner John Koskinen explained, “Normally, what you would do in the Justice Department and prior cases had maintained was the suit should be against, if you have a claim, for damages against… the contractor who stole the information. The Justice Department, up until this settlement, had taken the position that the IRS was not an appropriate defendant.”What’s more, Koskinen noted another unusual aspect of the story: language in the settlement that bars the IRS from investigating the past and future taxes of Trump, his family, or organization “forever.” According to Koskinen, he has “never heard” of such a settlement deal.“You do have to wonder what's in those returns that makes it so important for them not to be audited,” he noted.
Aimee Bock handed longest sentence yet of 78 defendants in free food program championed by Ilhan Omar
Aimee Bock, the founder of Feeding Our Future, a Minnesota food program that bilked taxpayers out of $250 million has been slapped with 41 years in prison.