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A woman has died of injuries she suffered in the terrorism in Boulder, Colorado, when an anti-Semite attacked a cadre of Jews walking for their Middle East cause with Molotov cocktails and a homemade flamethrower, and charges over that attack now have been upgraded.
A report at the Post-Millennial explained prosecutors in the leftist state now have added to the charges against suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45.
The additional charges followed the death of Karen Diamond, 82, who the Boulder County district attorney's office said, "died tragically as a result of the severe injuries that she suffered in the attack" that happened on June 1.
"Our office will fight for justice for all the victims, their loved ones, and the community," explained DA Michael Dougherty.
Soliman now faces two counts of first-degree murder, 52 counts of attempted first-degree murder, eight counts of first-degree assault, 18 counts of attempted first-degree assault, two counts of third-degree assault, two counts of using an incendiary device and 16 counts of attempted use of an incendiary.
He also faces one count of animal cruelty.
He could be, if convicted, sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Additionally, the federal government has delivered a 12-count indictment against him alleging federal hate law crimes and crimes of using fire in a felony.
Soliman reportedly targeted a "Run for Their Lives" demonstration over the group's advocacy for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
Court records allege he was carrying many Molotov cocktails and a backpack sprayer filled in flammable substance when he approached the marchers, then lobbed two of the explosives at them while yelling, "Free Palestine."
His manifesto, founder later, was where he called Israel a "cancer entity."
He was in the U.S. illegally at the time of the attack.
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A U.S. Navy ship that previously was saddled with the "Harvey Milk" name in a move that promoted the LGBT lifestyle choices, as Milk was a homosexual activist who was shot and killed in San Francisco, has been renamed. As WND reported, the Pentagon announced earlier this month that the ship would be renamed.
The vessel, a fleet replenishment oiler, now honors Oscar V. Peterson, a Medal of Honor recipient who was injured while saving his ship in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed the name change, and emphasized that the move was to take politics out of the process of naming vessels.
A Fox report said Peterson, a 20-year veteran of the Navy, was awarded the Medal of Honor after his death.
He was seriously injured in World War II "in an act of self-sacrifice that saved lives," the report said.
He was in charge of running the steam engine in the U.S.S. Neosho when it came under Japanese attack in the Philippines in 1942. He was seriously injured during the Battle of the Coral Sea when he was doing repairs, and was hurt while closing four bulkhead steam valves.
The move kept the ship afloat, the report said, but he was seriously burned, and although the ship kept afloat and 123 survivors aboard later were rescued, Peterson died of his injuries.
"People want to be proud of the ship they're sailing in," Hegseth explained. "We're not renaming the ship to anything political. This is not about political activists, unlike the previous administration."
He said the politics are being taken out of the process.
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Democrats often work for huge election turnouts in the belief that will help their candidates and their party.
It's why so many Democrat jurisdictions also are home to massive populations of illegal aliens, who at this point still are counted in the national census. And sometimes, too often, actually vote.
It's likely why when Mark Zuckerberg was handing out those hundreds of millions of dollars in free cash to local elections officials in the 2020 race, they often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
But now a report reveals that an increasing number of the voters who stayed home during the 2024 race would have picked President Donald Trump had they voted.
In fact, Trump won landslide proportion victories in the popular vote and in the Electoral College.
The report that undermines apparently Democrat "get-out-the-vote" schemes comes from Politico.
The report cited the work of Pew Research Center, which found that Trump, "benefited from high voter turnout in the 2024 presidential election more than former Vice President Kamala Harris did."
The report explained, "Trump won a larger percentage of voters who cast ballots last November after skipping the 2020 election, and the poll found roughly equal support between Trump and Harris among eligible voters who stayed home in 2024. That finding bucks a trend in the presidential electorate dating back decades. Historical analysis of presidential elections has indicated Democrats generally have been more popular among nonvoters."
Politico said during the 2020 race, "nonvoters preferred former President Joe Biden over Trump by 11 points."
Now, however, comes a new precedent, with Pew results suggesting if "all Americans eligible to vote in 2024 had cast ballots, the overall margin in the popular vote likely would not have been much different."
Among those who stayed home or weren't eligible to vote, Trump captured 52% of the support. Kamala Harris got 45%.
Sixty-four percent of the electorate voted in 2024, which was the second-highest figure since 1960, the report said.
Trump's campaign specifically reached out to young men, and ended up taking 55% of the voters who skipped both the 2020 presidential vote and the 2022 midterms.
Only 41% of that population chose Harris.
"The survey found that 44 percent of nonvoters said they would have voted for Trump had they voted, while 40 percent said they would have supported Harris," Politico reported.
Trump's supporters during 2024 also were more racially diverse that those who backed him in 2016 and 2020. He took 48% of the support of Hispanic voters and 15% of black voters, and that was up 7% from the election before.
The survey contacted nearly 9,000 people and ran from Nov. 12-17, 2024. There is a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.
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Leftists in Colorado apparently can learn, as they have agreed to settle quickly the latest lawsuit challenging their agenda to impose their LGBT faith on all groups in the state, including Christian camps for children.
The ADF has announced that a settlement has been reached with the state in which the extremists in power have agreed not to enforce their transgender demands on a Christian camp for children, IdRaHaJe, named after the traditional hymn "I'd Rather Have Jesus."
Earlier court fights over the anti-Christian policies and practices adopted by state officials already have cost taxpayers millions, and those continue to mount.
The newest case was filed just a month ago, and challenged a decision by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood to impose its transgender ideologies on all camps for children.
The settlement "allows the camp to operate without compromising its religious and commonsense beliefs about biological sex," the legal team explained.
The state agency had tried to force licensed resident camps to allow campers to use the private facilities of the opposite sex. That would mean letting boys into girls bedrooms and showers at the Christian camp, and vice versa.
"As part of the settlement, Colorado agreed not to take any enforcement action against Camp IdRaHaJe for violation of the gender identity requirements. The state is also clarifying in a memo on its website and in administrative guides that 'churches, synagogues, mosques, or any other place that is principally used for religious purposes' are exempt from the requirements," the ADF said.
"Government officials should never put a dangerous ideology ahead of kids," explained lawyer Andrea Dill. "State officials must respect religious ministries and their beliefs about human sexuality; they can't force a Christian summer camp to violate its convictions. We're pleased that Camp IdRaHaJe is again free to operate as it has for more than 75 years: as a Christian summer camp that accepts all campers without fear of being punished for its beliefs."
The camp has operated on acreage near Bailey, Colorado, since 1948, and has maintained a resident camp license in the state since 1995.
Leftists in Colorado's government recently pushed their radical transgender beliefs through the agency that issues camp licenses, demanding that campers be allowed "access bathing, dressing, and sleeping facilities designated for the opposite sex."
State officials then refused the camp's request for permission to operate consistent with its faith.
WND reported when the case was filed that it was just the latest in a long list of court disputes over the beliefs state officials insist on imposing on residents.
The state, run by leftist Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, Democrat-majority House and Senate bodies, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that in pursuit of its partisan agenda tried to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential election ballot, has taken actions dating back years already in its pro-LGBT, pro-abortion ideologies.
The problem is they conflict with the Constitution, as the Supreme Court already has ruled multiple times.
One of the latest fights is in court in a case brought by Defending Education, which sued Colorado over its new law that also punishes parents who don't support transgender beliefs adopted by their children.
That legislative plan created a standard that makes it "a discriminatory act to refuse to call trans-identifying individuals by their chosen name."
The state already has lost twice at the Supreme Court in its agenda to force Christian business operators in Colorado to spout the pro-LGBT agenda in their dealings, once with a cake baker and once with a web designer. A third similar case is pending before the Supreme Court now regarding the state's attempts to control the beliefs and speech of counselors. In the first case, the Supreme Court scolded the state for its "hostility" to Christianity.
Colorado taxpayers already have been stung for millions of dollars in legal expenses in the failed ideology imposed on them by leftist leaders.
The transgender ideologies promoted by state officials now exploded under the promotions adopted by Joe Biden when he was in the White House. For those who follow the science, such ideology in fact is a myth, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
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A Colorado man, Barry Morphew, has been arrested and charged with his wife's murder five years after she disappeared.
And two years after her body was found.
KDVR television in Denver said Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder for the death of Suzanne, apparently in 2020. Her remains were found in Saguache County in 2023.
He was arrested in Arizona on Friday and the 12th Judicial District is working to have him extradited to Colorado, the report said.
He had been charged earlier, but that case was dismissed before her body was found.
In a statement, District Attorney Anne Kelly said, "Federal, State and local law enforcement have never stopped working toward justice for Suzanne. The Twelfth Judicial District Attorney's Office stands in solidarity with Suzanne's family and the citizens of Chaffee and Saguache Counties in pursuing the Grand Jury's indictment.":
Suzanne Morphew, 43, was reported missing on May 10, 2020, after she went for a bike ride and didn't return.
Barry Morphew quickly was suspected and charged, but the case fell apart over claims a district attorney at the time had withheld information from the court.
Reports at the time confirmed the marriage was turbulent, with Suzanne reportedly having an affair and Barry facing claims he was an abuser.
Suzanne's bike was found abandoned close to the family's $1.5 million home but reports say police suspected it was staged.
The Daily Mail reported, "Barry told police he was out of town for a landscaping job three hours away in Broomfield, just outside of Denver. He had spent the night before her murder in a cheap hotel room that his coworker later found scattered with wet towels and stinking of chlorine."
Her body was found later, and an autopsy concluded she died by murder after a cocktail of drugs used to tranquilize wildlife was found in her bones.
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A newly published report says that CBS parent Paramount is hesitating to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over the network's decision to edit a Kamala Harris interview during last year's presidential race, eliminating her word salad response and inserting a coherent statement.
The report in the New York Post confirms it's because the corporation fears accusations of bribery should Democrats take over the U.S. House in the 2026 elections.
That fear is because there have been charges, without evidence, that the Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission may not approve a pending merger involving Paramount absent a settlement.
The report said, "Approval of the deal by Trump's regulators at the Federal Communications Commission is seen as contingent on settlement of the case, people at Paramount tell The Post. Trump legal reps and officials deny that the two issues are related, but Paramount executives are concerned that any large settlement would be considered a bribe since the fate of the $8 billion Paramount-Skydance merger is at stake."
The report said Trump's legal team had tried to settle for $50 million, but then reportedly agreed to the slightly lower figure.
"(The Trump people) appeared to be willing to settle for less, but even that amount worries the Paramount people," one deal insider was quoted in the Post report.
Meanwhile, the report said a source close to the Trump legal team denied the $35 million figure was acceptable.
"CBS has denied the charges and the main allegation that it purposely edited the Kamala Harris interview to edit out her famous 'word salad' vernacular to make her sound more presidential," the report said.
Media heiress Shari Redstone is wanting to sell Paramount to independent studio Skydance, and she has indicated previously her willingness to pay as much as $50 million to end the case.
She's wants to "preserve some semblance of her inheritance from her late father, media mogul Sumner Redstone."
Earlier, the Disney-owned ABC settled a Trump lawsuit, over anchor George Stephanopolous' claims Trump was guilty of "rape," paying $15 million.
"Skydance is run by movie maven David Ellison, the son of Trump friend and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who is worth approximately $250 billion," the report said.
The report noted, "A Paramount spokesman declined comment. A legal rep for Trump didn't return a request for comment. A Redstone rep didn't return a request for comment."
Democrats in Congress already have "raised the bribery issue and the worry is that a state attorney general or Congress — if it changes hands in the midterms — could launch an investigation," the report said.
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Not guilty of murder but guilty of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
That's the jury's determination in the case against Karen Read.
She was charged for the death of her Boston policeman boyfriend John O'Keefe.
Prosecutors claimed she ran into him and killed him during a blizzard in January 2022.
The verdict from jurors said she was not guilty of second-degree murder, which was the most serious claim. But they convicted her on of a lesser offense of driving a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of .08% or more.
A report from Fox News said a special prosecutor in the case, Hank Brennan, asked the judge for a sentence of a year of probation and for her to be ordered into an outpatient program, which is routine in the jurisdiction for first drunken driving offenses.
The jury also returned not guilty verdicts to drunken driving manslaughter and fleeing the scene of a deadly accident.
It was her second trial. During the first, last year, jurors deadlocked.
Her supporters burst into cheers on hearing the decision.
The month-long testimony included statements from two women, Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts, who said they were with Read when O'Keefe was found lying in the snow and unresponsive. McCabe claimed Read said, three times, "I hit him."
The report said the couple and others had been out drinking before an after-party at the home of Brian Albert. O'Keefe was found on Albert's lawn hours later.
Prosecutors alleged Read hit O'Keefe and drove to his house without him. Read's defense said she never hit him, suggesting the injuries came from a dog attack and a party altercation.
The Norfolk County jury had been deliberating since June 13.
"Today, our hearts are with John and the entire O'Keefe family. They have suffered through so much and deserved better from our justice system," said a statement released by members of the Albert and McCabe families. "While we may have more to say in the future, today we mourn with John's family and lament the cruel reality that this prosecution was infected by lies and conspiracy theories spread by Karen Read, her defense team, and some in the media."
The jury has posed several questions to the judge during deliberations, including about whether there could be a split verdict.
Beverly Cannone, the judge, said she was unable to answer hypotheticals.
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MyPillow chief Mike Lindell, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump throughout the Democrat lawfare against him, has been told by a federal jury to pay an ex-voting systems executive $2.3 million in a defamation case.
Lindell immediately called it a victory, since the plaintiff had demanded $62.7 million, and confirmed the amount awarded will be appealed.
Lindell was found liable by a jury in the far-left enclave of Denver for claiming election fraud in the 2020 election.
He was sued by Eric Coomer, ex-official at Dominion Voting Systems, a company that was under fire from a number of critics after the 2020 election results.
In that election, there was confirmed fraud in multiple cases as well as significant levels of undue influence. For one, Mark Zuckerberg dished out hundreds of millions of dollars to local election officials who often used the cash to recruit voters in Democrat districts. Further, the FBI actually interfered in the election by instructing media outlets to suppress the damaging information about the Bidens revealed in a laptop computer that was abandoned at a repair shop by Hunter Biden. Polling showed the influenced probably cost Trump that election.
The jury claimed Lindell's comments were "baseless conspiracy theories claiming election fraud in the 2020 election."
Coomer claimed Lindell and his companies "helped spread a conspiracy theory that he rigged the election against President Donald Trump," according to locally published reports.
Coomer's lawyer said he was thrilled with the verdict.
Lindell issued a press release explaining MyPillow was "fully exonerated," and he was cleared of claims of "malice" and "conspiracy" and no punitive damages were awarded.
His statement said, "In a defiant stand for the First Amendment, Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, has emerged largely victorious in a closely watched defamation trial brought by former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer. While corporate media giants like Fox News surrendered under pressure – paying $787.5 million to Dominion to avoid a courtroom showdown – Lindell took the fight all the way to a jury trial and was overwhelmingly cleared of wrongdoing."
Lindell said, "This was huge victory for our country! MyPillow was sued for No reason and they won!"
The statement confirmed the jury's award was being appealed.
The statement added, "While we do not agree that the plaintiff was entitled to any award whatsoever, and his motivations were to harm Mike Lindell, this was nevertheless a victory for Lindell, a victory for MyPillow, and a historic win for free speech in America."
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A dedicated pro-life activist has gone to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge San Diego's decision to make speech in some parts of the city conditional on the viewpoint expressed.
The situation is that in some "no-speech zones" in the city, abortion business workers, agents and volunteers can say anything they want in support of abortion, but pro-lifers are banned from expressing their perspective in opposition.
It is the Thomas More Society that is working on the case on behalf of Roger Lopez.
He objects to the district court ruling that has created a "constitutional double standard outside abortion businesses."
"San Diego has created a constitutional travesty where Planned Parenthood employees can freely harass and pressure vulnerable women right up to the clinic door, but peaceful sidewalk counselors offering help and hope face criminal prosecution for normal conversation," explained Peter Breen, of the society.
"The city has made sidewalk counseling virtually impossible, which violates both the rights of pro-life advocates to speak and women's rights to receive life-saving information. We will continue to defend Roger and pro-life advocates like him, protecting their right to serve pregnant women in need, and to put a permanent end to the 'abortion distortion' that has stripped so many Americans of their First Amendment rights in front of abortion facilities."
The city is accused of setting up a censorship scheme that violates both the First and the 14th Amendments.
"Courts have repeatedly upheld the rights of pro-life individuals to offer information on life-affirming alternatives to pregnant women in need, and San Diego's ordinance runs roughshod over those precedents," the society lawyers explained.
They have argued to the appeals court how the ordinance "creates an egregious double standard: abortion facility employees, agents, and volunteers are completely exempt from all speech restrictions and can freely approach and harass anyone within the 8-foot 'bubble zone,' while peaceful pro-life sidewalk counselors like Roger Lopez risk six months in jail for merely offering a leaflet or holding a sign that city officials deem harassing."
The restrictive pro-abortion law was adopted last year and creates a host of burdens to speech for those who disagree with the abortion-for-all agenda, prompted across the country in recent years by Joe Biden.
It forbids them from coming near to a passerby, restricts the volume they can use by prohibiting noise that is 'disturbing, excessive, or offensive … which causes discomfort or annoyance,' and prohibits signage or speech that is claimed to 'aggravate' or 'cause substantial distress.'"
"Sidewalk counselors like Roger empower tens of thousands of expecting moms to choose life by connecting them with free pregnancy and parenting resources that local abortion businesses try to hide from them," said Christopher Galiardo, staff lawyer at the Thomas More Society.
"The ordinance was drafted to suppress pro-life views and approved by an openly hostile city council. I look forward to the Ninth Circuit, long a champion of free speech, vindicating Roger's right to offer women in need help and hope."
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Presidents discussed Iran, agreed hostilities should end
In a Truth Social post Saturday, President Trump reported that he had a one-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Beginning with niceties involving Trump's 79th birthday, the call included discussion of both the Israel-Iran conflict and Russia-Ukraine war.