Author: Press Room

An illegal alien is accused of killing 37-year-old Giovany Negron Talavera, a father, and leaving a mother of three children in critical condition following a hit-and-run in Hillsborough County, Florida. Edwin Rapalo-Lorenzo, a 27-year-old illegal alien, has been arrested by the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office and charged with vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash involving death, leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury, and driving without a valid driver’s license. According to police, on April 11, Rapalo-Lorenzo was driving when he crossed into another lane and crashed head-on into a motorcycle with two passengers. The driver of…

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Eight children were killed in a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday, police have said, describing the attack as a domestic dispute that escalated into deadly violence.According to a statement on social media, officers responded to reports of a domestic disturbance in the 300 block of West 79th Street just after 6:00 AM local time (11:00 GMT). According to spokesperson Christopher Bordelon, the violence spanned multiple locations.“You have three different scenes,” Bordelon said, adding that the initial shooting occurred on West 79th Street, with a related incident unfolding on Harrison Street, and at least one victim fleeing to a…

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Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Iranian regime is “falling apart.” Host Jake Tapper said, “So President Trump and the Truth Social post this morning said if the Iranians don’t take the deal being offered, quote, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant in every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice guy. They’ll come down faster, come down easy. Are you not concerned that those proposed strikes on civilian infrastructure, including power plants, would hurt the innocent people of Iran and would constitute a war crime?”…

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Iran, with U.S. assistance, is removing the sea mines it placed in the Strait of Hormuz and has committed to never closing the Strait again as part of the agreements reached Friday, President Donald Trump announced. Trump told NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer that Iran “agreed to everything” in a phone call in the morning, which, according to his Truth Social posts, includes several commitments around the critical waterway, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil travels. “Iran, with the help of the U.S.A., has removed, or is removing, all sea mines! Thank you!” Trump wrote in one post. “Iran has…

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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said President Donald Trump had “lost our entire moral credibility” by threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization. JONATHAN KARL: So, I know you’ve obviously been adamantly opposed to this war in the first place. What do you make of this latest development, though, another round of peace talks? KHANNA: Well, they said they want to escalate to de-escalate. They’ve escalated to devastation. I mean, you have the pope lecturing America about possible war crimes. You have the president, as you pointed out, threatening to destroy all power plants. I didn’t think…

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The old food pyramid pushed Americans into consuming “ultra-processed foods and highly refined carbohydrates that destroyed their metabolic system,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a House education hearing on Friday. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) asked Kennedy what impact the “poor” guidelines from the old food pyramid has had on the health of American children. Kennedy pointed out that the original food pyramid, which had bread, cereal, and pasta with the highest daily servings and meats and dairy toward the top with lesser servings, was written by industry lobbyists and has remained that way for the…

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State Department officials have reportedly warned Havana that it has a “small window” to implement reforms US officials have urged Cuba to transition from socialism to a market-based economy and compensate American citizens and corporations whose assets were seized in the 1960s, US news outlets reported on Friday and Saturday, citing sources familiar with the matter.A delegation from the US State Department outlined the demands late last week during the first trip of the kind to Havana since 2016, as Cuba grapples with severe fuel shortages and blackouts following restrictions on oil shipments imposed by US President Donald Trump.The US…

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Failed companies are discovering that their internal communications and operational data have become valuable commodities in the booming AI industry. Forbes reports that when Shanna Johnson closed down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she led as CEO, she found an unexpected source of revenue in what she calls the company’s “operational exhaust.” This digital residue, accumulated over 13 years of business operations, included conversations on messaging system Slack, Jira IT tickets, email correspondence, and multi-terabyte Google Drive archives documenting the daily work of her employees. Johnson partnered with SimpleClosure, a startup specializing in company wind-downs, to handle the standard…

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An influential Labour Party peer has joined the chorus of calls demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador despite his ties to deceased paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. This week, the long-running scandal enveloping Downing Street over the appointment of veteran Labour spin doctor Lord Mandelson to the top diplomatic posting in Washington rocketed back into the headlines after it emerged that he was selected despite having failed his security services vetting process. Top civil servant Sir Oliver ‘Olly’ Robbins was sacked on Thursday in an apparent attempt to divert…

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EMILY’s List, the pro-abortion PAC that previously backed failed presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, is circulating a memo arguing that its endorsed California gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) — an Elizabeth Warren protégée— stands to gain the most from Eric Swalwell’s departure from the race.  The memo says Porter is “gaining significant late momentum” and claims she is “the most-prepared candidate to meet this moment.” It contends that, after Swalwell’s exit amid sexual assault allegations, Porter offers Democrats the “strongest path to victory in California” and says, “It is time to elect the first woman Governor…

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