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Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School massacre – a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults.
Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999.
Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began "fantasizing" about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later, she wrote "detailed fantasies" about shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, killing her father and killing her psychiatrist.
"In this case, a manifesto didn’t exist," the document reads. "Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack."
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Maybe Musk is stepping down. Who knows.
But until the source is more than “three anonymous Trump insiders” who spoke to leftist rag POLITICO of all places, then I’m treating this story as FAKE NEWS.
https://x.com/patri0tcontr0l/status/1907471821810937959
NOW: Zuckerberg has reportedly been spotted at the White House
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Look at this theater. Democrat congresswoman uses her baby as a political prop on MSNBC in order to push for proxy voting.
So the party of abortion is now using newborn babies to push their political agenda. You can’t make it up.
https://x.com/patri0tcontr0l/status/1907455074512593071
JUST IN🚨: President Donald Trump has told his Cabinet and inner circle that Elon Musk is stepping back from his government role.
The Tesla and Space X founder will soon be returning to the business world, Politico reported, in a move that rattled the stock market and caused shock waves in Washington.
It was a joint decision between the two men and Trump said he remains happy with Musk's work with the Department of Government Efficiency.
The report Musk is going back to his business roots did send his company shares' soaring. He became a billionaire through his various corporate holdings.
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Hakeem Jeffries🤏: “This is not ‘Liberation Day’ — it’s ‘Recession Day’ in the United States of America.”
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California has doled out nearly $18 million in taxpayer funding to the left-wing Tides Center since Gavin Newsom (D.) became governor in 2019, a Washington Free Beacon review of state spending records found. Thanks to the way the dark money behemoth operates, it’s a mystery whether the money goes to any of the far-left groups it supports.
That setup allows the state to obscure which group actually gets taxpayer dollars after it awards contracts or grants to the Tides Center. The Golden State’s spending database shows that 18 agencies, ranging from health departments to workplace regulators, sent payments to the George Soros-backed nonprofit. The database does not reveal which project gets the cash in the end. State officials also told the Free Beacon that the database is missing information from some departments, meaning total payments to the Tides Center could eclipse the nearly $18 million shown.
The Tides Center essentially acts like a middle man, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars every year to a network of seemingly independent charitable organizations—primarily progressive activist groups. But unlike traditional nonprofits, these groups are housed within the Tides Center as so-called fiscally sponsored projects, enabling them to operate as charities while sidestepping the IRS's robust financial transparency requirements for tax-exempt groups.
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Luigi Mangione vibes😒: A man walked into a Walgreens in Madera and killed an employee because police say he had a grudge against large pharmacies.
Madera Police Chief Gino Chiaramonte said Narciso Gallardo Fernandez entered the store and opened fire, killing Erick Velasquez. It appears the killing was random as police say there was no known relation between the two men.
The suspect was also captured on surveillance video obtained by Action News waving with his gun at the camera, saying something inaudible, and then shooting out the camera at the front of the store.
Fernandez allegedly shot at other employees and customers as they left the store. No one else was hit.
Chief Chiaramonte said it appears that Fernandez drove from more than 80 miles from Pixley to the store off Cleveland Avenue, arriving just after 9:30 pm on Monday.
Fernandez was taken into custody outside the store in the parking lot, which was captured in police body camera footage. Detectives say he was reloading his gun when officers arrived.
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JUST IN: Canada says they will remove ALL tariffs if US does so too:
"Let's sit down and discuss this... We’d be willing to take those off tomorrow if he took all the tariffs off. We are not the problem. China is the problem… We don't want tariffs.,. We’re going to take these tariffs off in the next minute if he said he’s taking their tariffs off." — Ontario Premier Doug Ford
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U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced on Monday that her department will return over $1 billion in unused COVID-era funding back to the taxpayer amid the Trump administration's push for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.
In a press release, the Labor Department said $1.4 billion of unspent COVID funding will be "returned to taxpayers through the U.S. Department of Treasury’s General Fund" and added that "action" is "being taken to recover the remaining $2.9 billion."
The department explained in the press release that the funding originated from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in March 2020 and that the program was meant to provide expanded unemployment insurance for Americans who were not able to work during the pandemic.
The program was closed in 2021, the department said, but the 2023 audit "found four states were allowed to access the funding ‘despite not meeting program requirements,’ totaling over $100 million in spending."
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WaPo: President Donald Trump is scheduled Wednesday afternoon to unveil comprehensive new tariffs on imported goods in a move designed to spur a renaissance in domestic manufacturing and fill government coffers with tax revenue, even as many economists warn that he is steering the U.S. economy toward slower growth and higher prices.
After weeks of internal debate and mixed signals, Trump plans to reveal details of his broadest import tax yet in a Rose Garden ceremony, the first of his second term, featuring his full Cabinet. The announcement follows the president’s signing in mid-February of a memorandum calling for a “fair and reciprocal” trade plan to rebalance the global trading system.
The details have shifted over time, as the president swung between his initial inclination to impose tariffs that match the fees assessed by other nations on U.S. products and a more uniform formula reminiscent of the “universal” 10 percent to 20 percent tariff he touted during the 2024 campaign.
In recent days, Trump has spoken favorably of the simpler approach that would impose an identical tariff of roughly 20 percent on goods from almost all nations.
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🔥 Biden-era rule placing greater constraints on millions of legal American gun owners could be struck down if newly introduced Republican legislation becomes law.
Companion bills introduced by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., would undo a 2023 ruling by the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that classified pistols modified with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles and thus placed them under the National Firearms Act.
The action required all owners of pistols modified with stabilizing braces to pay a $200 fee, register their name with the U.S. Department of Justice and obtain federal approval to construct or transfer a short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun.
“‘Shall not be infringed’ is crystal clear – and the Biden-era abuses of the Constitutionally protected rights of gun owners across the country need to be undone,” Marshall said in a statement Tuesday. “The SHORT Act takes a step toward rolling back nonsensical regulations that the National Firearms Act has placed upon gun owners.”
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BREAKING🚨: A federal judge in New York on Wednesday dismissed corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, but not in the way the Trump administration wanted.
Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be revived.
The Justice Department sought to have the case dismissed to free Adams to cooperate with the mayor's immigration agenda. The department wanted the case dismissed without prejudice, meaning it could be brought again.
Judge Ho declined to endorse DOJ's desired outcome
"In light of DOJ's rationales, dismissing the case without prejudice would create the unavoidable perception that the Mayor's freedom depends on his ability to carry out the immigration enforcement priorities of the administration, and that he might be more beholden to the demands of the federal government than to the wishes of his own constituents. That appearance is inevitable, and it counsels in favor of dismissal with prejudice," Ho decided.
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A federal judge on Tuesday said the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump cannot quickly fire thousands of probationary federal workers in 19 states and Washington, D.C., narrowing an earlier nationwide ruling.
U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore, Maryland, said that if federal agencies want to fire large numbers of probationary workers, they must follow the required procedures for conducting mass layoffs of government employees.
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Florida's 1st congressional district: Republican Jimmy Patronis has won the US House special election.
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The FBI received a record number of new agent applications in Director Kash Patel’s first full month leading the bureau, with the flood of law enforcement job-seekers nearly doubling the monthly average since 2016.
There were 5,577 new FBI agent applications submitted in March, Fox News Digital has learned.
The last time the bureau saw a monthly figure even close to that number was April 2016, with 5,283 applications.
In a post on X, Director Patel said, "The work is only beginning — but this FBI is letting good cops be cops, and more and more brave men and women are seeking to be apart of it. Our team is doing an outstanding job finding the best of the best."
"Renewed mission. Stronger future," he added.
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The Israel Defense Forces launched a major ground offensive Wednesday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, as it expands its campaign to dismantle Hamas following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced.
Katz said the IDF is working to "clear the area of terrorists and terror infrastructure, and to seize large territories that will be incorporated into Israel’s security zones." He urged Gaza residents to "act now to remove Hamas and return all the hostages," calling it "the only way to end the war."
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Meta Platforms has signed a multi-year deal to become the first “official fan technology partner” of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), whose CEO was elected to the Facebook parent’s board in January.
Under the deal, Meta will provide UFC fans a deeper immersive experience through its services, with its text-based platform, Threads, becoming the league’s official social media partner, UFC said in a statement on Wednesday.
Meta will have its branding featured in UFC’s Octagon ring for pay-per-view and “Fight Night” events, along with numerous broadcast features and creative in-arena fan experiences.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Earlier this week the Kremlin said it has given the Trump White House formal notification and evidence showing that Ukraine has continued attacking Russian energy sites, despite the US-backed agreement for each side to refrain from hitting this infrastructure.
On Wednesday Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that so far there's been no response from the Trump administration. "So far, there has been no reaction to such actions by the Kiev regime," Peskov said.
Previously Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described that a list of violations had been handed over to US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Russia’s representatives in the UN and the OSCE, "so that they in their work would present concrete facts demonstrating what the word of the Ukrainian authorities is worth," according to TASS.
This week for the first time a top Russian negotiator and Putin representative will meet with Trump official Steve Witkoff in Washington. The US has temporarily waved sanctions on the Russian official in order to grant him a visa for the visit.
Kirill Dmitriev is a "close adviser to Putin and traveled with top Russian officials to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia in February to start discussing a settlement for the end of the war in Ukraine," the report notes. "He also worked with Witkoff to free American teacher Marc Fogel from Russia, which the Trump administration hailed as a goodwill gesture."
As for where overall negotiations to end the war in Ukraine stand, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Tuesday that current US proposals on ending the war can't be accepted in their current form.
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JUST IN❕: Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid.
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President JD Vance and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Amazon’s bid highlights the 11th-hour maneuvering in Washington over TikTok’s ownership. Policymakers in both parties have expressed deep national security concerns over the app’s Chinese ownership, and passed a law last year to force a sale of TikTok that was set to take effect in January.
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A second wave of buyout offers has gone out to federal workers inside some agencies, including Transportation, GSA and the Housing department, Axios has learned.
The context for these offers, sent to at least five agencies, has shifted radically since the initial "Fork in the Road" email went out in February — employees have been through the fire over the past month, laid off, forced out or embroiled in court fights to keep their jobs.
Folks are more receptive this time around, per the Washington Post, which first reported on the new buyouts.
Thousands of new workers are eligible, the paper reports. It says employees at the Energy Department and USDA also received offers.
Deadlines to decide range between April 7 and April 15.
Distinct from round 1, an Office of Personnel Management official said these offers are being initiated at the agency level.
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A California man will plead guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by showing up outside his home in 2022 with weapons, his lawyers said Wednesday.
Lawyers for Nicholas Roske announced his intent in a letter to the judge overseeing the case. Roske was set to face trial in June, and the charge carries up to life in prison.
By pleading guilty, Roske will admit that he flew from California to Washington Dulles International Airport on June 7, 2022, before taking a taxi to the conservative justice’s Maryland home. After arriving, Roske quickly abandoned his plans, with transcripts showing he spoke with 911 and his sister before officers met Roske on scene.
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Internal FBI messages have been released.
The FBI knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was the real deal back in 2020 within hours of the NY Post laptop story breaking. The FBI issued a "gag order" on discussing this publicly - and even went as far to say that the official response is "no comment", even though they pushed the Russian disinformation hoax and allowed it to fester.
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Threads from Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger joint report
Interim U.S. Attorney in Washington, Ed Martin is investigating whether Joe Biden was competent to issue pardons during his final days in office. The inquiry includes previously undisclosed letters to Biden’s family and former White House staff.
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The Trump administration is giving thousands of federal workers a second chance to walk away — and some, exhausted by months of chaos and fearing what’s next, are seriously thinking about leaving.
This week, at least seven agencies, including the departments of Defense, Agriculture, Energy, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation, as well as the Small Business Administration and the General Services Administration, are making a new round of offers for workers to leave their jobs, using the same Deferred Resignation Program that prompted more than 77,000 federal employees to voluntarily leave earlier this year.
The proposal would allow workers to resign now and be paid and keep their benefits through at least Sept. 30, according to the agency notices. But unlike the first wave of offers, which was coordinated through the Office of Personnel Management and gave employees weeks to consider their options, this round is moving much faster.
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HAPPY LIBERATION DAY, AMERICA! 🇺🇸💰
President Donald J. Trump has secured nearly $5,000,000,000,000 in investment and trade commitments from across the globe.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1907431997263217007
Polish authorities said Tuesday they charged a 47-year-old Ukrainian citizen with working for Russian intelligence after he was discovered last month conducting reconnaissance of military facilities in Poland.
The National Prosecutor´s Office did not name the man but said that he was born in Russia, and that he was arrested and charged on March 20.
The suspect’s activities involved “reconnaissance of military facilities in Poland” on behalf of Russian intelligence, a crime punishable under Polish law by prison terms 5 to 30 years, the prosecutor´s office said in a statement. The office added that the suspect explained that he had “ideological motives for his activities resulting from his ties with Russia.”
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Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to President Donald Trump's administration, calling for a stop to its "assault" on science. 🥴
The letter was signed by elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a congressional chartered organization that provides independent analysis and helps inform public policy decisions.
The group made clear the signatories are expressing their own views and not those of the National Academies or their home institutions.
"We are speaking out as individuals. We see real danger in this moment," the letter said, in part. "We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."
"We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call," the letter continued.
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Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Trump's effort to overhaul the election system.
The executive order, which Trump signed on March 25, requires stricter voting regulations in federal elections, including showing proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is among the groups representing the plaintiffs in the complaint.
"We know that providing documentation in general tends to fall more heavily on people who are already having so many obstacles thrown in their lives at them," ACLU attorney Sophia Lin Lakin told ABC News. "These are real barriers for populations that unfortunately intersect very much with voters of color."
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JUST IN: Republican Randy Fine is the projected winner of the US House special election in Florida's 6th congressional district, per Decision Desk.
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