YouTube star Andre Beadle has died after flipping his BMW X5 in a car crash on Nov. 6, the UK Daily Mail reported. The 25-year-old Bronx native was driving "at a high rate of speed" at the time of the accident in an apparent street race.
The accident occurred on a section of highway in Queens near JFK Airport. Beadle was careening down the road when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into an Acura.
Beadle was ejected from the purple BMW during the crash and landed on the ground, sustaining serious injuries. Despite emergency medical personnel responding quickly, Beadle was later pronounced dead at a hospital. A 21-year-old riding with Beadle was not injured, nor was the driver of the Acura.
Investigators are still trying to piece together what led to the crash. However, Beadle was known for sharing videos of his street racing meetups that often took place on roads just like the one where he would lose his life.
Beadle had thousands of subscribers on his 1Stockf30 YouTube channel. He also posted videos of his street races with his luxury vehicles on other platforms, such as TikTok and Instagram, where he had some 251,000 followers.
Just hours before his death, Beadle uploaded a video to YouTube that showed him working on the BMW before heading out on the same road where he would meet his demise. "We outside prepping late at night. We getting ready," Beadle can be heard saying.
According to CBS, his brother Alico Beadle claimed Andre Beadle mainly raced on designated tracks. "He crash on a track a couple months ago, and then it was a pretty bad accident, too," Alico Beadle said.
"But the barriers and all that, he had a helmet and all that, saved him. But this one, just, I don't know," Alico Beadle added.
Family, friends, and fans remembered Andre Beadle at a memorial service on Nov. 8 at Haffen Park, located in the Bronx and not far from where the deceased man had lived. His mother, Everith McCray, spoke of her son's fondness for all things automotive.
"He loved cars. He talked about cars every day. That's what he do: Cars, cars, cars," McCray said.
A massive crowd turned out for the remembrance, which included a balloon release in Andre Beadle's honor. McCray was touched to see so many people there for her son's final farewell.
“Everybody loved him. Look at this gathering. He was a kind and loving son. He was always smiling. It’s devastating, just devastating," his mother said.
The young man was a star because of his adventurous spirit and love of fast cars. Sadly, it was the sport that defined him that ultimately took his life.
Vivek Ramaswamy and Jane Timken have emerged as possible replacements for Vice President-elect J.D. Vance's U.S. Senate seat. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will choose who will fill the seat until a 2026 special election.
With President-elect Donald Trump's win, the political landscape is about to be completely overhauled. Part of that includes figuring out who will replace Vance next year.
DeWine will likely choose someone who most reflects Trump's values rather than the old-guard GOP. Ramaswamy has made a name for himself with his steadfast support for Trump while Timken is mainstay in the state Republican Party.
Whoever the replacement is will have to win the vote in 2026 and face reelection again in 2028. Nevertheless, there's no shortage of solid candidates at the ready.
Vance is a freshman Senator just elected in 2022 and hasn't publicly stated who he would like to take over for him. "I'm much too superstitious to think about that now," Vance said ahead of Election Day. Sen. Bernie Moreno, Ohio's other U.S. Senator who was just elected, echoed similar sentiments.
"That sounds like a problem for January 21. That’s not for today," Moreno said at an event where he appeared alongside Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy seems like a strong contender, given his breakout success as a pro-Trump voice in politics, even if his presidential run was unsuccessful. The 39-year-old businessman represents the new focus of the GOP, and it's adherence to the Make America Great Again agenda.
"What’s happened in America, and what we’re going to fix, is the greatest demasculinization in US history. It starts with our economy. The first generation who will pay into systems like social security and not get paid out is actually sitting in front of me today," Ramaswamy said.
One person close to the matter believes Vivek is simply "going to be" the replacement for Vance. "DeWine isn’t going to like it, but Trump is the one who’s gonna make the call. And DeWine will take that call," the person said.
Timken's name is also at the top of the list as a possible replacement. She is the former chair for the Ohio Republican Party and, according to The Hill, a party insider said she would be attractive to DeWin as a "bridge builder."
However, like Ramaswamy, Timken has yet to prove her electoral chops as she placed fifth in the primary where Vance became the GOP's nominee. While this may be a concern for the 2028 election, Timken is a safer choice who is more likely to get along with the establishment.
Unfortunately, one source close to the matter thinks that may be a liability for her. "Jane makes all the sense in the world. … But that’s also why she maybe won’t get it," one operative said.
"She makes sense as the favorite on paper," the source added. Others said to be on DeWine's list include Ohio's GOP Rep. Mike Carey, Attorney General Dave Yost, and the state's Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy.
It's unclear who DeWine will choose, but the decision will be important for the party's future. At least the modern Republican Party has no shortage of strong candidates who will support Trump's agenda.
President-elect Donald Trump said on X on Saturday that he thinks the GOP should do “whatever we can do to help" the Kamala Harris campaign, which ended its failed bid for the White House with $20 million in debt.
“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump wrote.
“Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do,” he continued, “We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was 'Earned Media,' and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Harris raised over $1 billion in just the 100 or so days she was the Democrat nominee, while Trump only raised $853 million in all of 2024.
Despite the disparity in fundraising, Trump didn't have much trouble winning the election. His post was the closest he has gotten to gloating so far.
A big part of Harris's spending in the last days before the election was due to campaign events that involved rallies that were really concerts meant to draw a lot of people in a way no one believed Harris could do on her own.
The concerts from Jon Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga cost about $20 million, and apparently haven't yet been paid for.
Harris also spent six figures on the set of her "Call Her Daddy" podcast appearance, which didn't give her nearly the bang for her buck that Trump's Joe Rogan podcast appearance gave him.
Another million dollars went to Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios.
It just goes to show that it didn't matter how much money Harris and the Democrats threw at voters, she wasn't going to get elected--and not because she's Black or a woman.
Harris did not appear to be qualified to be president. She didn't even appear to be genuine.
Maybe it's just how she presented herself--which could certainly be different from who she actually is.
The likelihood is that she's been a politician so long that nothing real is left in her mind heard.
In any case, the American public saw through it and elected Trump, even though a lot of people didn't really like him that much either.
Though liberals across the country are doing their best to deny it, Tuesday's election represented to many a political shift the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades.
One prominent voice who has not only acknowledged the nation's realignment but seemingly also welcomed it is filmmaker and former teen star Justine Bateman, who declared, as Breitbart reports, that the “Woke Party” has earned its place in the “American political graveyard.”
Considering her noteworthy Hollywood pedigree, which took root in the 1980s with her role in the hit series Family Ties, Bateman's recent declarations on the state of American politics may have come as a surprise to many.
However, it was not long after Donald Trump's landslide election win that Bateman began to reveal her thoughts on the political climate that prevailed during the Biden-Harris administration.
“Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years,” Bateman wrote on X, adding that the last four years were, to her, “an almost intolerable period” in which “any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of 'permitted positions' in order to assess acceptability.”
Bateman went on, “Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one's professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others."
“When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement,” she observed, further declaring, “I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else's freedom to live their own life. That's it.”
A day later, Bateman returned to X to weigh in on what she hopes will be the far-reaching impact of Tuesday's election.
“In 2020, the Democratic Party was overthrown by the Woke Party. And the Woke Party has run the country for the past four years. It produced negative results” she noted.
In an expression of relief, Bateman went on, “That experiment is over. The Woke Party can take its place in the American Political graveyard with the Whigs and the Federalists.”
Adding a satirical twist to her biting critique of the left's sway in recent years, Bateman undertook a series of online reviews of social media meltdowns posted by supporters of Kamala Harris in the wake of her defeat.
Picking apart the video posts from a writing and filmmaking standpoint, Bateman's approach offered a jocular yet poignant commentary on the hyperbolic rhetoric that flowed in the wake of Trump's victory.
Bateman also took a moment to respond to recent comments from California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for a special legislative session designed to “Trump-proof” the Golden State.
“Dude, look at the election results from 5 days ago, federal and local, CA is not interested in any more of your nonsense,” Bateman said, and it seems clear that large swaths of America emphatically agree.
Megan Valentine was arrested Tuesday after allegedly murdering her husband, Judge Michael Valentine, WNIN-TV reported. The 44-year-old's body was discovered outside of his home on Election Day, leading to Megan Valentine's arrest.
Police were called to the judge's Albion home for a welfare check on Nov. 5. When they got to the residence, they discovered Michael Valentine's body laid out on the road.
Illinois State Police picked up Megan Valentine and charged her with first-degree murder. The 41-year-old is being held at the White County Jail in Carmi, Illinois, the New York Post reported.
Her next court appearance will be on Nov. 12, and Megan Valentine's attorney did not object to her remaining in custody until then. Besides murder, she was also charged with aggravated domestic battery, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and aggravated battery with a firearm.
Police are not saying what the possible motives are for the shooting. By all accounts, the judge was an upstanding citizen and dedicated to serving his family and community.
According to his obituary, Michael Valentine was elected judge in 2016 and successfully reelected in 2022. Before that, he served on the Albion Fire Department and was a Chicago EMT.
Michael Valentine joined the Illinois State Bar Association and Illinois Judges Associate after receiving his law degree from Southern Illinois University. He also served as Edwards County State's Attorney for eight years.
The judge was also a Catholic and a member of the Albion Moose Lodge. Michael Valentine's obituary said he "will be remembered as a good and fair judge, who helped many he served," his family said.
"Most of all, he was a loving son and a loving father," the obituary added. Michael Valentine left behind a daughter, Mia Rose Valentine and a son, Michael Joseph Valentine III, as well as many other beloved relatives.
Michael Valentine's colleague, Second Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Melissa Morgan, called his death "tragic" in a statement, People reported. "On behalf of all of the judges of the Second Judicial Circuit, we are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic passing of our colleague and friend, Edwards County Resident Judge Michael J. Valentine," the statement said.
"Judge Valentine was a distinguished jurist who was determined in the pursuit of justice and his compassion and conduct earned him the confidence and respect of the people who appeared before him. He will be sorely missed," the statement went on.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time," it added. Unfortunately, as the Post pointed out, Michael Valentine is not the only judge to be gunned down this year.
District Judge Kevin Mullins was gunned down outside a Kentucky courthouse by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines. A defense attorney for Stines claimed it was a spontaneous decision following a dispute inside the courthouse.
Murder is always a horrific crime, but it's especially appalling when committed by the spouse of the victim. Michael Valentine died senselessly, and his wife will likely spend the rest of her life in jail if convicted.
President-elect Donald Trump made a campaign promise to pardon people implicated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, The Hill reported. With Trump's decisive win on Election Day, these defendants are eager to see him fulfill that promise.
At least 1,500 people were charged in the unrest at the Capitol while protesting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Of those, 143 were put on house arrest, while another 645 were sent to prison.
At a rally in Wisconsin on Sept. 7, Trump promised that he would "rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner unjustly victimized" by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' regime. "And I will sign their pardons on day one, I will sign it on day one," he added.
After the unrest at the Capitol, President Joe Biden's Justice Department launched a crusade against these ordinary Americans caught up in the protest. The agency spent years and wasted resources in what The Hill called "the largest and most complex prosecutions in the agency’s history."
The DOJ claimed that hundreds of people involved that day were insurrectionists and the worst kind of criminals, regardless of the nature of the activity they engaged in. Now, they're hoping Trump makes good on the promise to free them, as Democrats will surely object.
One of those protesters included Jenny Cudd, who received two months of probation after being convicted for entering and wandering around the government building. Cudd was a business owner who helped her community, but was hunted down by the government.
Following Trump's decisive victory, Cudd took to X, formerly Twitter, to express her hopes. "It means the world to all of us J6ers to know that what we did was not in vain — and all of the pain and suffering and the families torn apart and the lives destroyed was not done in vain," Cudd said.
"And we’re all really excited that we’re about to get presidential pardons," she added. While some of those prosecuted were part of so-called extremist groups, many were people like Cudd who just wanted their voices heard.
The riot on Jan. 6 was not a productive way to protest and shouldn't have unfolded as it did. However, the ugliest part of the day was what Democrats like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted to do with it.
According to CNN, footage of Pelosi that day showed that she was bent on pinning the entire situation on Trump. While her senior aide bounced off ideas for a speech for her, Pelosi stopped him when she included a call for Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to resign.
"I think our focus has to be on the president. Let’s not divert ourselves," Pelosi said. It was only two days later that Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry against Trump, The New York Times reported at the time.
"The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution," Pelosi said of Trump. She claimed that he "must be held accountable — no one is above the law."
The incident on Jan. 6 was not one of the nation's best days. However, the fact that the government has doggedly pursued the people involved in minor infractions while pinning an entire insurrection narrative on Trump is disgraceful. These people deserve to have their cases reviewed for pardon, even if it makes the Democrats go insane.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) said she was happy to "play a small part" in helping former President Donald Trump get elected president this week, Breitbart reported. Gabbard, previously a Democrat, became a Republican in October and joined Trump on the campaign trail.
During the 2020 presidential election, Gabbard ran as a Democrat against the crowded field. By August of this year, she endorsed Trump as a president who didn't "start any new wars" and "took action to de-escalate and prevent wars."
On Wednesday, Gabbard gushed about her experience campaigning with Trump. She accompanied the heartfelt words on her post to X, formerly Twitter, with a photo of the two smiling together at one of his rallies.
I offer my heartfelt thanks and aloha to President Donald Trump for allowing me to play a small part in his victorious campaign to Make America Great Again. It has been a great honor and privilege to get to know @realDonaldTrump, a kind and courageous person who sincerely desires… pic.twitter.com/mI3JYB5AC8
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) November 6, 2024
Gabbard thanked the president-elect for the opportunity to help him on his way to victory. "I offer my heartfelt thanks and aloha to President Donald Trump for allowing me to play a small part in his victorious campaign to Make America Great Again," she began in her post.
"It has been a great honor and privilege to get to know @realDonaldTrump, a kind and courageous person who sincerely desires the best for the American people — and indeed for all the people in the world. It is my great hope that the American people will loudly condemn any efforts by those who did everything they could to sabotage his previous presidency to try and do it again," Gabbard added.
In October, Fox News reported that Gabbard had joined Trump on stage in Greensboro, North Carolina, to cement her link to Trump and the GOP. "I'm proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I'm joining the Republican Party," she announced from the stage.
"I am joining the party of the people," she added. Perhaps Tulsi's decision to make that announcement in the swing state helped push Trump over the edge.
As of Thursday evening, the New York Times reported that Trump won North Carolina by 200,000 votes. Having a former Democrat switch parties and endorse him was potentially a powerful deciding factor for many voters.
Although the 2024 election was Gabbard's first time officially campaigning for Trump, she indirectly helped him eventually beat Vice President Kamala Harris by reminding the public of her record during the Democratic primary of 2020. Gabbard went after Harris and effectively ended her first presidential run, which almost certainly impacted her second as Harris was shown to be dishonest.
While debating Harris, Gabbard delivered what would be the kill shot to the then-senator's presidential hopes. "Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president," Gabbard began, according to CNN.
"But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," the then-Democratic senator went on.
“She blocked evidence – she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California," Gabbard charged.
There's no doubt that Gabbard's remarks about Harris reverberated through to the 2024 campaign. Now, she gets to bask in the afterglow of a Trump victory that was made possible in part to her help.
Attorneys for Sean "Diddy" Combs requested a gag order on a witness who claims there is video evidence of the rapper "victimizing" eight of his A-list friends, including two who were "underage," The Blast reported. The artist and producer is on trial for sex trafficking and other crimes.
Combs and his attorneys attempted to prevent witnesses from speaking about their testimony and evidence outside of the courtroom. One of those witnesses was longtime friend and Alter Ego Records CEO Courtney Burgess.
He has been sharing with the press about evidence and testimony, including that he has knowledge of video evidence of Combs' alleged crimes possibly involving minors. Burgess claims to either possess or have seen the footage on flash drives that Combs' girlfriend, Kim Porter, provided.
The footage was allegedly taken from hidden cameras in the home. Attorneys for Combs have dismissed these allegations as nothing more than an "extortion scam," and are seeking to shut down these discussions with a court order.
Burgess has been asked to turn over any video or photographic evidence to the grand jury. He has shared that the footage he received from Porter, with whom Combs shares four children, includes two male celebrities who "underage" at the time of the filming being victimized.
Disturbingly, these videos also purportedly show that the people were acting impaired, as if drugged or drunk, while engaged in the activity. Burgess claims that Combs, who has has known for more than 30 years, wasn't always like this.
"At the time, I guess he was ambitious. Then from ambitious [he] went to doing anything And then [he] from doing anything to didn't care about nobody - who he could beat," Burgess said of his longtime friend.
"And then he ended up turning into Lucifer. And today, I'm looking at him - I know you all call him Diddy or Puffy - I call him Lucifer," Burgess added.
Combs is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He is facing charges such as racketeering, transportation to engage in prostitution, and disturbing allegations of sex trafficking.
The latest attempt at a gag order comes after another request was denied late last month, USA Today reported. One of the arguments came from an attorney for one of Combs' alleged victims.
Lawyer Douglas Wigdor argued that his client, Cassie Ventura, had a right to speak about her experience as a victim. Ventura has already settled her lawsuit over abuse, rape, and sex trafficking at the hands of Combs last year.
The attorney said that a gag order "inappropriately silence victims who are proactively seeking justice through the civil justice system." Wigdor also believes that Ventura has a right to rebut statements made about her in the press.
"The relief Mr. Combs seeks is particularly inappropriate given that his family and representatives have themselves made extrajudicial statements to garner the exact attention he claims he wants to diminish. These survivors and their attorneys should not be silenced and prevented from pursuing their claims publicly, or from speaking their truth, during the pendency of Mr. Combs’s criminal case," Wigdor added.
Combs' alleged victims deserve to have their say, especially if their names are being dragged in the press. The music mogul has a mounting list of allegations against him, and these feeble attempts to silence alleged victims will do nothing to help Combs in the end.
Hunter Biden complained about his massive legal bills at a high-end Hollywood party last week, Page Six reported. One guest overheard President Joe Biden's son lament that he has "$18 million in legal bills" and "cases hanging over my head."
The younger Biden has been rubbing elbows with the rich and fabulous in Los Angeles at cocktail parties. It turns out his favorite topic of discussion is his legal woes, which have turned into a financial nightmare.
The president's son was convicted of tax evasion to the tune of $1.4 million in September. He is awaiting sentencing, which should come in the next two months.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden has also had to defend himself against federal weapons and drug charges after a bitter divorce and custody dispute. The financial fallout seems to be the only thing the 54-year-old wants to discuss now.
Hunter Biden has been sharing his complaints with A-listers in Los Angeles. "Hunter Biden was trying to explain his history and problems to guests at a party in LA," a source close to the matter shared with the gossip section of the New York Post.
"'I have $18 million in legal bills, and… my cases hanging over my head.’ He also talked a lot about his Ukraine and Russia connections saying, ‘all these stories were set-ups,'" the unnamed guest shared about Hunter Biden's choice of party chatter.
Even as he spews these complaints about a situation of his own making, Hunter Biden has become a fixture at such parties. "Oy vey, he’s become a very popular guest in the super-rich Hollywood cocktail party circuit where hosts are happy to have President Biden’s son in the room," the source said.
Until recently, entertainment attorney Kevin Morris was bankrolling Hunter Biden's defense. However, a person close to the matter told Politico in May that Morris has nothing left to lend the younger Biden now.
"The reason Kevin got involved financially in the first place was that he could see that no one was going to help Hunter. Now, four and a half years later, there’s still no help — and now Kevin is completely tapped out. So just when Hunter is facing two criminal trials starting in a few weeks, he has no resources. It’s pretty dire," the source said.
Although Morris can no longer help Hunter Biden, it seems he's not without assistance from a surprising ally. After President Biden had sworn not to pardon his son, former President Donald Trump said he was open to the idea if he should win on Election Day.
"I wouldn't take it off the books. See, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they've done to me, where they've gone after me so viciously ... And Hunter's a bad boy," Trump said late last month when asked about the possibility.
"There's no question about it. He's been a bad boy. But I happen to think it's very bad for our country," Trump said of jailing Hunter Biden.
With Joe Biden leaving office in a little more than two months, Hunter Biden will be without the protection of his father's powerful position. His legal and financial woes could just be beginning, but Trump's generosity may be the thing that saves him from what his Hollywood friends can't.
When hurricanes Helene and Milton hit Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee in recent weeks, Republicans worried that the dismal conditions would keep voters from getting to the polls.
But the larger impact of the hurricanes on the latest jobs report may be much worse for Democrats than any loss of votes from the residual hurricane damage, and former President Donald Trump was quick to label the economy "a disaster" based on the terrible numbers.
Only 12,000 jobs were created in October, far lower than the 100,000 expected by experts and the lowest in four years. Besides the hurricanes, the port strike and other labor problems are being blamed.
“What timing, four days before the election, they have among the worst numbers ever in history,” Trump said. “It is hundreds of thousands of jobs less than it should be.”
“I stand here as the only candidate who can rescue our economy from total obliteration,” he said at the rally. “The economy is now a disaster.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said right away that "this jobs report is a catastrophe and definitively reveals how badly Kamala Harris broke our economy."
"Working families are being ripped off by the Harris-Biden economic agenda. Kamala broke the economy. President Trump will fix it," Leavitt claimed.
He and Democrat nominee Vice President Kamala Harris both held rallies in Milwaukee County on Friday. Both reportedly drew about 12,000 attendees, although Harris had to feature rapper CardiB in order to get that many people to come.
Many attendees at Trump's rally wore garbageman outfits in reaction to a comment from President Joe Biden that Trump supporters are "garbage."
“I don’t want your money. I want your damn vote,” Trump said during the rally. “The fate of the nation is in your hands.”
The stock market didn't react to the lower numbers, which bolsters the claims that it was an artificially low number for the reasons given above.
But Trump used it to drive home his point that his opponent and her administration have not done a good job on the economy, which is true even if the number is temporary.
Unemployment was the same at 4.1% despite the low job numbers.
Polling indicates that Tuesday's race is on a knife's edge, with Trump ahead by less than 1 point in many crucial swing states.