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Photo credit: depositphotos.com Dmitry Shushlebin, 45, a Russian citizen living in Miami Beach, Florida, was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison and three years of supervised release for organizing an identity theft fraud scheme and ordered to pay $458,839.69 in restitution. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Shushlebin’s scheme included efforts to submit more than 100 fraudulent voter registration applications to create fake identities that he could use to commit financial fraud. Per the DOJ: On July 24, 2025, the United States filed a four-count superseding information charging Shushlebin with conspiracy to give false information in registering…
A pro-Palestinian activist will not face any penalty for defacing the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square despite admitting in court to having spray-painted political messages on the monument. Caspar San Giorgi, 39, was acquitted by the Southwark Crown Court of criminal damage this week over an incident in February in which he climbed onto the Churchill statue and used red spray paint to write the messages “Free Palestine”, “Stop the Genocide”, and describing Britain’s WWII leader as a “Zionist War Criminal”. Despite the prosecution claiming that the red paint vandalism on the public property had caused £7,000 in damage,…
Toys “R” Us is planning to open over 100 new stores with locations announced in two states, according to the New York Post. The retailer experienced bankruptcy in 2017 but toy sales have subsequently been growing, the outlet reported Thursday, noting some stores would be located in White Plains, New York, and Millburn, New Jersey. “Toy sales in the U.S. grew 17 percent in the first half of the year — the strongest first-half performance in six years — largely fueled by adults who are snatching up trading cards and collectibles, according to Circana. Adults now account for 55 percent of…
Angel Mom Elizabeth Carter says her newlywed son, 25-year-old Billy Carter, and his wife, 24-year-old Jenny Lynn Lower, would be alive today if not for former President Joe Biden and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s catch-and-release policy at the southern border. During an immigration subcommittee hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Carter detailed her son and daughter-in-law’s deaths allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien truck driver from India. Carter said, “I have to say, as a lifelong Democrat, I am ashamed of what my party is doing,” the New York Post reported. As Breitbart News reported at…
The billionaire wielded his foundation’s vast wealth to push countries to spend more on vaccination, the former German chancellor says Bill Gates turned the vast financial resources of his foundation into political leverage, using its wealth to pressure governments to spend more on vaccination, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. In the Meckel & Matthes podcast released by Handelsblatt earlier this month, Merkel warned that uncontrolled corporate power could leave governments doing “what the corporations order.” She said she first saw the danger not with the rise of artificial intelligence, but when Gates set up his foundation, which had…
New York Mets first baseman Jared Young receives medical attention after being knocked unconscious in a collision with teammate. (Screenshot via X/@deadpullhitter) A terrifying collision at Citi Field Thursday night left New York Mets first baseman Jared Young motionless in the dirt. Then the city’s emergency crews turned a medical emergency into a viral embarrassment. The terrifying incident occurred in the sixth inning when Mets pitcher Nolan McLean raced toward first base to field a slow ground ball. As McLean attempted to cover the bag, his knee slammed into Young’s head, sending the 31-year-old player face-first onto the dirt. Young…
Italy will not wait for Brussels’ notoriously slow bureaucracy to react and is preparing to deploy navy ships at the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on its own to protect Italian merchant vessels in the area, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday. Last week, the Iran-backed Houthis insurgent group in Yemen declared control of the island of Perim, located at the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a maritime shipping route connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The situation has prompted concerns over the safety of shipping vessels transiting through the area. Most notably, Saudi Arabia has been using the route to ship…
Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg likened President Donald Trump’s attempt to place his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to putting his name on Kennedy’s grave. Goldberg said, “So you-know-who’s obsession with slapping his name on the Kennedy Center continues. A federal judge just rejected his latest effort to add his name back on.” She continued, “His handpicked board members voted to close the center for renovations, which he says won’t happen unless his name is added to the building.” Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “This is like the kid taking their…
Such a status does not exist in the bloc’s treaties and has raised concerns among member states European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the EU’s first ‘associate member’ has raised questions about what such a relationship would mean.The idea, unveiled during von der Leyen’s State of the Union address earlier this week, has drawn reservations from some EU states.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has since welcomed the EU’s “ambition,” while stressing that Canada is not seeking full membership in the bloc.So, what exactly is being proposed – and could it actually happen? What did von…
Screencap of YouTube video Liberals would have you believe that strong teacher unions equate with strong schools and solid results, but a new study found the exact opposite. Of the states included in the study, blue states with the strongest teacher unions also happened to have the lowest reading scores. Conversely, red states cited in the study, which give less attention to teacher unions, score much higher. FOX News reports: Powerful teachers’ unions share striking link with states struggling to teach kids to read States with stronger teachers’ unions tend to have weaker literacy performance and have adopted fewer of…