Rap star Lil Nas X has been charged for attacking police during a naked, late-night drug binge in Los Angeles.
The openly gay, 26-year-old entertainer, known for the country rap single "Old Town Road," pleaded not guilty Monday to four felony counts - three counts of battery against a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer.
The rapper, whose real name is Montero Hill, had been seen wandering the streets of Los Angeles in nothing but underwear and a pair of cowboy boots early Thursday, August 21. He is accused of injuring at least three cops as they tried to arrest him.
Footage of the disturbing incident that was publicized by TMZ showed the rapper roaming Ventura Boulevard and placing an orange traffic cone on his head.
When police arrived, the rapper "punched an officer twice in the face," according to reports.
After a struggle, the rapper was hospitalized for a suspected drug overdose and then booked in the county jail on a misdemeanor battery charge.
“This morning, around 5:50 a.m., officers responded to the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard for a nude man walking in the street,” the police said.
“Upon arrival, the suspect charged at officers and was taken into custody. He was transported to a local hospital for a possible overdose,” the spokesperson added.
The rapper was released from jail Monday on a $75,000 bail, which is less than the $300,000 requested by prosecutors.
The Los Angeles District attorney, Nate Hochman, said the famous rapper would be held to the same standard as anyone else who breaks the law.
“Attacking police officers is more than just a crime against those individuals but a direct threat to public safety,” Nathan J. Hochman, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, said in a news release. “Anyone who assaults law enforcement will face serious consequences, no matter who they are or how famous they may be.”
Upon his release from jail, the man who roamed the streets at night while naked, and then charged at police, described his jail stay as a "terrifying" experience.
"Your girl is gonna be OK, boo. OK? S–t’s gonna be all right,” he said in an Instagram Story. “S–t’s gonna be all right. S–t. That was f–king terrifying. That was terrifying. That was a terrifying last four days. But your girl is gonna be all right.”
If found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Elizabeth Farah sits down with U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt for a no-holds-barred conversation on his book, "The Last Line of Defense: How to Beat the Left in Court."
Schmitt walks viewers through the battles that defined his years as Missouri's attorney general, exposing Biden's censorship regime, recalling Fauci's deposition, and detailing Supreme Court wins that crushed vaccine mandates and blocked student-loan giveaways.
Elizabeth presses him on the border invasion, Title 42, Remain in Mexico, and why mass deportations must happen. Schmitt calls out omnibus scams in Congress, Chevron deference, and the globalist elites who shuttered 90,000 factories and sent millions of American jobs overseas.
Together they lay out the stakes: restore the rule of law, dismantle the administrative state, and fight for America's survival with courage and clarity. This interview is urgent, unapologetic, and armed with a playbook for how to win.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A high-school girls' volleyball team hasn't played all its scheduled games recently but keeps "winning" thanks to opponents forfeiting – due to a biological boy playing on the team.
Jurupa Valley High School in Riverside County, California, includes on its team AB Hernandez, a biological male "identifying" as a girl. In the name of safety, other teams have forfeited games, the latest being Orange Vista High School.
According to the U.K.'s GBN, the decision emerged following deliberations between student-athletes and their coaching staff regarding the scheduled Aug. 29 match.
Orange Vista emphasized that student welfare remained their primary concern throughout the decision-making process.
Riverside Poly High School initially brought attention to the issue after forfeiting its Aug. 15 match against Jurupa Valley.
"After thoughtful discussions our student-athletes had with coaching staff, it was decided to cancel our upcoming Girls' Varsity volleyball match against Jurupa Valley High School," said a statement from Orange Vista.
The report notes that Jurupa Valley High School defended its having a male on the roster by stating that they must comply with California state law protecting students from gender identity discrimination.
The district referenced California Education Code 221.5 (f), which mandates student participation on athletic teams matching their "gender identity."
According to his mother, Nereyda Hernandez, AB doesn't know the reason for the forfeits, i.e., his presence on the team.
"I understand the discomfort some may feel, because I was once there, too. The difference is, I chose to learn, to grow, and to open my heart," she explained to GBN.
"This is a child, and I can assure you that she sees your daughters as peers, as teammates, as friends, not through a lens of anything inappropriate," she stated.
Jurupa Valley High School told Fox News, "We understand and acknowledge the disappointment of our Jurupa Valley High School athletes who are ready and prepared to play. Decisions to cancel matches were made by teams in other districts."
Hernandez is the athlete who drew controversy last spring when he competed and won several track and field competitions in California girls' events, including two state titles.
A teammate of Hernandez, Alyssa McPherson, told Fox News it isn't fair for the other players, stating, "I just feel like it's so unfair that not only am I missing out on my senior season, but my other teammates, our JV team, and our freshmen team aren't playing either. And it's just so disheartening that they're not gonna have a season and we just want to be able to compete, play, and have fun."
She continued, "To me, I feel like this is just a fairness issue. … It's just so sad."
Since taking office in January, President Trump has taken action to try to inhibit the practice of boys playing on girls' sports teams and the presence of opposite-sex athletes in locker rooms. Multiple states and school districts have taken legal action against executive orders and other actions of the White House.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A white Minnesota mother will face criminal charges for calling a young black child the N-word after the youngster was allegedly stealing from her own child's belongings at a public playground.
Video of the April incident went viral, and on Tuesday the Rochester City Attorney's Office said it intends to file three counts of disorderly conduct against Shiloh Hendrix, according to KTTC-TV.
While the charges are still subject to review and approval by a district court judge, the legal complaint concludes "[Shiloh] wrongfully and unlawfully engaged in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct, or in offensive obscene, or abusive language that would reasonably tend to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others."
Hendrix could face a maximum of 90 days in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
The mom created a GiveSendGo donation page for herself, saying she has "been put into a very dire situation. I recently had a kid steal from my 18-month-old son's diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was."
"Another man, who we recently found out has had a history with law enforcement, proceeded to record me and follow me to my car. He then posted these videos online which has caused my family, and myself, great turmoil.
"My SSN has been leaked. My address, and phone number have been given out freely. My family members are being attacked. My eldest child may not be going back to school. Even where I exercise has been exposed."
As of Tuesday, more than $800,000 has been collected online for Hendrix.
After receiving criticism, Jacob Wells, the CFO of GiveSendGo, defended his platform allowing Hendrix to raise money for her plight.
"You have to take a step back from the emotion of these because they are very highly emotional issues and you land on a principle," Wells told NewsNation.
"I believe in freedom of speech, freedom of association. These are foundational tenets to the society that we live in and when you start going down the road of cancellation and cancel culture, it actually breaks the very things that we see that we're against."
Wells explained some folks have developed a "mob mentality," which has "ruined so many people's lives," adding Hendrix did not act "unprovoked" on the playground.
"The boy was rummaging through her belongings, so it's not like she just stepped into the situation unprovoked and called a young boy a term," Wells noted before adding does not "condone calling people racial epithets and bad names at all."
Political commentator Matt Walsh said on video about this incident: "The people running Minnesota, including Tim Walz, decided to import a large group of people to secure a new and very local constituency for themselves. In fact, so many Somalis have now settled in Rochester, that the city recently opened an entire community center just for them."
"The real overarching problem that we should be talking about, if we could get outside of this playground and this incident, the much greater problem which the government has engineered, which is the flood of Third World immigration from dysfunctional, failed states that are overrun with poverty and crime, ad they bring it to this country."
The man who recorded the video, Sharmake Omar, 30, told NBC News in May: "That little boy … was visibly upset by the incident," claiming the child has autism spectrum disorder.
Omar said he knows the boy's parents, who are from Somalia, and indicated they were also supervising their three other children at the park.
Rochester Mayor Kim Norton said: "This was a situation that deeply affected many people, especially our communities of color, and caused real turmoil in our community."
"We acknowledge the lasting impact this incident has had, not only on those directly involved and across our community, but also in the broader conversations happening at the state and national level. These moments remind us of the complexity and far-reaching impacts of situations like this. The City remains committed to staying engaged and proceeding with transparency and care, continuing efforts that support accountability and progress in Rochester."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
As President Donald Trump on Monday continued to praise "zero murders" in Washington, D.C., since he sent in the National Guard, his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is sounding the alarm about a "massive scandal" involving deception in the city's crime statistics.
"We've uncovered [and are] in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, D.C. with the doctoring of crime stats, and the Department of Justice under the attorney general is leading the effort to uncover this," Miller said in the Oval Office.
"But when we ultimately share the results, it will stun you the extent to which, even though D.C. had the worst crime in America, honestly measured it dramatically understated how bad it was."
"There's even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents instead of murders. This is how severe the manipulation of the crime data has been in the city, and it will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light."
Miller praised Trump's action with the National Guard, saying, "No police officer working in the city can remember a time in their lives when there has been no murders."
"No one can even find a record of being murder-free for as long as we've been murder-free under the president's leadership."
He said he's had numerous interactions with police, and "Members of the public are going up to them and thanking them, just overflowing with gratitude because for the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets.
"You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed, mugged or wearing their watches again, they're wearing jewelry again, and they're carrying purses again. People have changed their whole lives in this city for fear of being murdered mugged and carjacked.
"It is a literal statement that President Trump has freed 700,000 people in this city who were living under the rule of criminals and thugs," he continued.
"The street criminals here in Washington, D.C., were doing business directly with the transnational criminal cartels, the foreign terrorist organizations. So not only was the city being run by these criminal thugs, but they were working with some of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on the planet to traffic weapons and drugs into this city. What we are uncovering every day is shocking to us."
Trump is looking to replicate his D.C. success in other American crime-ridden cities, with Chicago a possibility at the top of the list, despite opposition from local officials including Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson who said: "The city of Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny, resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We're not gonna back down. We're not gonna cower. We're not gonna bend."
Democrat Rep. Adam Smith (WA) took to MSNBC on Saturday to complain about President Donald Trump's federalization of the District of Columbia, particularly the national capital of Washington.
Of course, he was goaded on by host Al Sharpton, because everyone on MSNBC hates Trump and is going to criticize anything he says or does.
Sharpton asked, “Are you concerned with how the president and some Republican governors have begun to utilize the National Guard at this moment?”
Smith said, “Very concerned," and went on to detail what he thought the problems were with doing so.
"I mean, there are two huge problems here," he said. "Number one, we are using the United States Military for domestic law enforcement. They are not trained to do that. Also the second big problem is this is Trump basically giving himself a national police force."
So far, about 1,800 National Guard troops from a number of states have been sent to D.C., but the New York Times reported that the Guard has been in primarily a support role to the 500 federal law enforcement officers who are patrolling and making many of the arrests.
That's hardly a "national police force" for Trump's specific use. Nevertheless, Smith insisted, "He’s certainly doing it with the guard. He did it with the active duty Marines in Los Angeles. But when you look at what ICE is doing, it’s certainly ICE. They’re hiring a lot more agents, but he’s using every conceivable federal agency, the DEA, the ATF, the postal inspector service, to go out into our community and violate people’s rights to pick them up off the streets with no due process and lock them up.”
He added, “This is Donald Trump building a national security force that will serve his interests and not the interests of the American people. What’s he going to do with that? Well, I think January 6, 2021 gives us a hint, a clue as to what he might do with it. So, look, this is not what the military is supposed to be doing. First of all, it’s dangerous in the communities. Second of all, Trump is using it to enhance his own power, which we should all be concerned about."
Smith is twisting Trump's actions and giving them evil intentions, like pretty much all Democrats and the left have done.
Trump is trying to reverse Biden's open-door immigration policies and remove as many of the 2-plus million illegal immigrants that Biden let into the country as he can.
He's also trying to reverse 60 years of Democrat policies in Washington, D.C., and potentially, other huge cities.
Smith concluded by admitting that crime is a problem in these cities. He said, "And look, you know, you’ve been in New York City, you know, Washington, D.C., look, crime is a problem. Fascism isn’t the answer. And that’s the message I hope Democrats send out.”
But the bottom line is, Democrats don't have any answers for reforming immigration or reducing crime.
Their ideas have been bankrupt because they don't include enforcing the laws, and the best they can do is attack Trump for doing what he thinks needs to be done and lie about his intentions every step of the way.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
License-plate reader technology was around long before artificial intelligence. But critics warn that it provides a foreshadowing of some of the dangers that could be coming.
It is the Institute for Justice that now has announced a nationwide campaign to push back against the "arbitrary and unrestrained" use of the cameras used in that tech.
Already, there are cameras across thousands of American communities, but there are major concerns about violations of the U.S. Constitution.
"The Fourth Amendment problems with this unregulated mass surveillance are only getting worse as communities around the country begin using ALPRs or expand their existing surveillance networks," said IJ lawyer Michael Soyfer. "Nationwide, police are now using ALPR cameras to track the locations and movements of countless law-abiding people who have never been suspected of any crime."
The campaign, called The Plate Private Project, will combine IJ's litigation, legislation, activism, and media capabilities regarding the warrantless search industry.
Private companies benefit from the campaigns to monitor all of a city's citizenry, getting paid for cameras, monitoring, recording, and more.
Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, PlateSmart and others are involved.
"Unlike red-light cameras or speed cameras that are triggered by specific violations, these cameras photograph every vehicle that drives by and can use artificial intelligence to create a profile with identifying information that then gets stored in a massive database," the IJ explained.
"Once that happens, officials can search the database for any vehicle they wish, all without a warrant."
The results can reveal in an individual goes to a hospital or church, a gunshop or a friend, and how often.
"Departments around the country are automatically sharing data with each other, making it simple for police anywhere to track drivers' movements," the warning said.
"All of this arbitrary discretion threatens people's privacy, security, and freedom of movement by creating an atmosphere where everyone knows they are being watched and tracked whenever they hit the road. "
Joshua Windham, IJ lawyer, added, "Because police don't need to obtain a warrant before searching these databases, they can search for nefarious reasons or no reason at all. As currently used, these cameras are ripe for abuse."
Already, reports have included police using the cameras to stalk former girlfriends, sharing data with federal investigators, and providing bogus justifications for data hunts.
The IJ said its project "will propose model legislation in state legislatures to protect against warrantless ALPR surveillance, partner with local grassroots activists to help them resist the use of these cameras in their communities, and continue fighting in the courts to strengthen the Fourth Amendment's protections against this new form of warrantless surveillance."
Further, it will provide details to people who want to learn about the spying that goes on in their own communities.
Already, one judge has ruled in an IJ case that the use of more than 170 Flock Safety cameras confirms "a reasonable person could believe that society's expectations [of privacy] are being violated by the Norfolk Flock system."
Peter Navarro is calling for an investigation into FBI agents who targeted him and President Donald Trump with political investigations.
Navarro specifically called for an investigation into Walter Giardina, an agent who was recently fired by FBI Director Kash Patel.
Navarro told Breitbart News, "The FBI and the DOJ went after Donald John Trump, dating back from 2016 all the way to President Trump being elected in November of 2024."
It was the Obama administration that worked with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign to launch the Russian collusion hoax, and Obama's FBI did much of the heavy lifting in the campaign to crush Trump's presidential run.
While Patel has been purging the FBI of those political actors, it's clear that simply firing these people isn't enough. Navarro, along with many Trump supporters, want criminal consequences for the blatant political corruption of the past decade.
Navarro singled out Giardina for his role in the Russian collusion hoax saying, "So the Giardina story starts in 2016 with the Christopher Steele dossier. That was the dossier. It was totally fake. It was presented as an intelligence report, paid for by Hillary Clinton, and the whole purpose of that was to create a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax."
The Steele dossier was the subject of intense scrutiny for years, as it was the basis of the allegations against Trump. We now know that it was fraudulent and paid for by the Clinton campaign, and Obama's FBI accepted the dossier without investigating it.
Navarro continued by explaining, "And once that was done, that set in motion the whole ball of wax. It set in motion Crossfire Hurricane operation by the FBI and DOJ to get Trump. That, in turn, morphed into the Mueller report."
Giardina, as one of the chief architects of the corrupt investigation against Trump, must pay the price or there will be no deterent for political ideologues in the future to weild the power of the justice system for poltiical purposes.
Navarro pointed this out by saying, "The left’s trying to make him a martyr. … This son of a bitch is not a martyr. He’s an insurrectionist, in my view, and he committed treason against his country by trying to in different operations — either interfere with the 2016 and 2020 elections, or overthrow Donald Trump."
Democrats have screeched about every act that the Trump administration has taken against those who subverted the justice system to attack Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
Trump and the American people deserve justice, and maybe a bit of revenge, for the decade of chaos that leftists like Giardina caused.
Navarro finished off his comments by saying, "[Giardina] didn’t give a shit about perp-walking my fiancée. He didn’t care when Jeff Clark’s home got raided and his family got terrorized. He didn’t care when Mar-a-Lago got raided and they went through Melania’s closets. This is a man who has tried to, in my judgment, overthrow the government of the United States, using the powers of the FBI in an abusive way."
Democrats had no issues when the power of the FBI was being used to target their political opponents, but now the shoe is on the other foot.
President Donald Trump and his administration aren't afraid to let go of people who no longer serve their agenda, and a high-ranking Defense official just found that out this week.
According to the New York Post, Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), was fired this week in the wake of a DIA bomb-damage assessment report that was ultimately leaked to the media.
The report claimed that President Trump's strikes on Iran earlier this year only set the rogue regime back a few months regarding its nuclear program, contrary to what the Trump administration has claimed.
A senior Defense official reportedly told the Post that Kruse "will no longer serve as DIA Director."
The firing reportedly came down from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over what was described as a "loss of confidence" in the three-star general, according to congressional sources.
The damage assessment report after the strikes on Iran, which were carried out by stealth bombers, was reportedly leaked to CNN.
The Post noted:
The DIA’s classified, “low confidence” estimation of the effectiveness of the June 21 airstrikes on Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear facilities was leaked to CNN three days after American B-2 stealth bombers and cruise missiles bombarded the sites.
The report, which was based on intel gathered just a day after the bombings, suggested that Iran could recover from it and bring its nuclear program back online within months.
President Trump was not happy about the report or the fact that it was leaked to the press.
"AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY," in a Truth Social post at the time. "THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!"
Special envoy Steve Witkoff was especially fired up regarding the DIA's report, calling it "treasonous" and "outrageous."
The Post noted:
Special envoy Steve Witkoff charged that any suggestion the US did not achieve its military objectives in Iran is “completely preposterous,” in an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” at the time.
Witkoff went on to slam the leaking of the DIA assessment as “outrageous” and “treasonous,” and called for an investigation to find the person responsible for it in order to hold them accountable.
Kruse's firing was only the latest in the Trump administration's efforts to clean house in the U.S. intelligence community.
DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard announced earlier in the week a major overhaul at her agency and others in the world of U.S. intel.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In response to President Trump vowing Friday to send National Guard troops to Chicago to help limit crime, as he has done in D.C., on resident of the Windy City says no thanks – even though she admits to being carjacked and assaulted in her hometown.
"Chicago is a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we'll straighten that one out probably next," the president told reporters in the Oval Office. "That'll be our next one after this, and it won't even be tough."
But Jill Ciminillo thinks that's a terrible idea, as the Gateway Pundit reported.
"Dear @realDonaldTrump… I've been carjacked in Chicago with my arm broken. I still don't want you or your troops here," she wrote on X Friday. "TIA. BTW, there are no red hats here."
Ciminillo's X post has since been deleted.
Here are some responses to the Chicagoan's message to the president: