[FoxNews] Pierce County Sheriff's Office responded to no-contact order violation before witnesses reported man 'stabbing people' outside home
Authorities are investigating after five people were killed Tuesday in a violent stabbing in the middle of a street in Washington state.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) confirmed four adult victims were killed in Purdy, along with a 32-year-old male suspect who has not been publicly identified, FOX 13 Seattle reported.
Three of the victims died at the scene, and a fourth was pronounced dead at the hospital, the outlet reported.
The suspect was shot by responding deputies and pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials said the incident unfolded just after 8:45 a.m., when the sheriff's office was called about a man entering a Purdy home in violation of a no-contact order.
Deputies were on the way to serve the order when multiple witnesses reported a man was "stabbing people" outside the house at about 9:30 a.m., according to the outlet.
The suspect was shot by deputies just three minutes later, authorities said.
Purdy is a small waterfront community near Gig Harbor in western Washington state.
It is about an hour southwest of Seattle and roughly 20 minutes northwest of Tacoma.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has finally addressed the president's announcement to release all government files related to UFOs and aliens.
Speaking at an event for the Department of War’s 'Arsenal of Freedom' tour on Monday, Hegseth, 45, said he intends to find out if aliens really exist, and the American people will learn the truth at the same time.
Although he admitted he never envisioned being the person put in charge of potentially revealing alien life to the world, Hegseth declared that the Department of War would fully comply with the president's orders.
'I did not have that on my bingo card at all,' Hegseth said.
'We've got our people working on it right now. I don't want to oversell how much time it will take, right? We're digging in. We're going to be in full compliance with that executive order, eager to provide that for the president.'
Hegseth didn't have an estimate of how long it would take for the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies to release every piece of information on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), which have been widely reported throughout the US since the 1940s.
Asked if he believes aliens exist, Hegseth replied: 'We'll see. I get to do the review and find out along with all of you.'
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who was put in charge of the House Oversight Committee's task force on declassifying secret records on UAPs, revealed that all of the incoming documents will be housed on the US National Archives' website.
Until now, the Pentagon has maintained for decades that no physical evidence of extraterrestrial life has ever been found by the US, and videos capturing suspected UFOs have never been confirmed to be of a non-human origin.
Hegseth's comments came after a whirlwind week of stunning UFO-related claims made by Trump and former President Barack Obama.
On February 14, a podcast interview between Obama and Brian Tyler Cohen sent shockwaves through the US after the 44th president declared aliens were real, but they weren't being kept at Area 51.
Obama tried to walk back the comments a day later, posting on social media that he gave a short and direct answer to Cohen's rapid-fire questions 'to stick with the spirit of the speed round.'
'Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,' he wrote on February 15.
However, President Trump seized on the comments, declaring that Obama had actually committed a serious violation by speaking on the matter, calling the topic 'classified information.'
'I don't know if they're real or not,' Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on February 19 when asked about alien life and his predecessor's comments.
'I can tell you he gave classified information. He made a big mistake,' the president added.
Just hours later, Trump became the first president in history to issue a broad executive directive ordering government agencies to make any information on unidentified spacecraft and non-human life public information.
The president has also reportedly granted a key US congressman access to the most famous military base - Area 51.
In a recent interview, Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri claimed his request to visit the top-secret Nevada facility and other locations allegedly connected to UFOs was approved by the White House.
Burlison is a member of the congressional oversight committee involved in the ongoing investigation into UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs.
Although the US government has continued to deny that crashed UFOs and alien bodies have been recovered, Congress has heard from multiple whistleblowers claiming secret programs have covered up the truth for 80 years.
Seeking physical evidence of these encounters, Burlison told the ALN Podcast that the Trump Administration has ordered Hegseth and the Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) to 'make it happen.'
'The extent to which they've been involved is literally just saying to the Department of Defense that "we're backing his request. Do what you can to make it happen,"' Burlison explained during the January 30 interview.
Trump has previously said he didn't believe UFOs or aliens exist, but revealed that military pilots have personally told him about their mid-air encounters with unexplainable craft which defied the laws of gravity.
When asked if he would declassify the files about aliens on the Lex Fridman Podcast in September 2024, then-candidate Trump said: 'Sure, I’ll do that. I would do that. I’d love to do that. I have to do that.'
The president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, has claimed he already has a written speech prepared, which discusses the topic of UFOs and alien life visiting Earth.
White House insiders and UFO researchers have claimed this speech is scheduled to be given this year, possibly coinciding with the Roswell UFO incident's 79th anniversary on July 8 or at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
3.8 Million UFO Files Wiped Hours After Donald Trump's Alien Disclosure Order ‐ Accidental Error or Something More?
A vast archive of declassified US government files vanished from The Black Vault just hours after Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all documents relating to aliens, unidentified aerial phenomena and unidentified flying objects. The server wipe affected 3.8 million files, including CIA projects, military reports and other sensitive documents collected over decades by researcher John Greenewald Jr. The timing has raised questions about whether the deletion was accidental or deliberate.
The 3.8 million files in the above post may have been wiped, but either they were reconstituted or this is a separate archive, because I just clicked on something random and it was definitely there.
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There isn't any fire but there is a TON of smoke.
The oceans, they seem to concentrate in the oceans. They enter by the poles, fly around and then dive into the ocean into God knows where.
A Navy destroyer detected something the size of a football field moving at speeds that should not be possible underwater. There is a theorized island of stability at element 115 and this tech seems based on that.
The biggest problem UAP/UFO people ever had is how nutso they all are.
This is beside the point of if they are real or not.
Read Hegseth's reaction again. He knows. He wouldn't have said that if there were nothing there.
Supposedly they have bodies in cold storage and recovered UFOs at, yes, Area 51.
There's going to be a lot of ridicule because people have invested so much in "debunking" UAPs that they can't stand to be proven wrong.
It's like how the commies refused to give up even after they lost the Cold War. Even today they're still at it in NYC.
[ZERO] A software engineer in Spain had the surprise of his life when he found himself in control of thousands of robots in what was supposed to be a pet project. Sammy Azdoufal set out to customize his new Chinese-made DJI Romo robot vacuum, a high-end autonomous cleaner that comes with a price tag of $2,000 that maps homes, mops floors, and navigates obstacles with onboard sensors, according to Popular Science.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'Chicago's very own' WGN-TV was hit by a brutal round of cuts this week.
The layoffs come as the station's parent company, Nexstar, prepares to take over rival Tegna.
At least nine high-profile anchors and reporters were included in the cuts.
Among the casualties were mainstays like WGN Weekend Morning News Anchor Sean Lewis and Entertainment Reporter Dean Richards, The Chicago Tribune initially reported Monday, citing sources.
Longtime reporter Judy Wang was also let go - as was sports anchor Chris Boden, Evening News's Ray Cortipassi, Political Analyst Paul Lisnek, and reporters Julian Crews and Bronagh Tumulty, The Tribune reported.
Meteorologist Mike Janssen was the ninth to be discharged, The Daily Mail confirmed on Tuesday.
Janssen looked back fondly on his '15 good years at WGN' when reached for a phone call by the Mail.
When asked why so many celebrated staffers were being let go, Janssen said, 'That's over my head.'
'Sometimes we're just minions, right? Unfortunately, Chicago is missing out,' he added.
Janssen emphasized how 'a lot of great people leaving were there even longer' than he was.
'But that doesn't mean I'll be turning off the channel. I'll still be watching,' he said.
Chicagoans who had come to see him as a fixture flooded his Facebook with messages on Tuesday following the Tribute report. Sources told the paper Janssen had not renewed his contract Friday. Efforts to reach him by the publication were unsuccessful.
'Wait did I miss something? Are you not on WGN? You are one of the best there!!!' one fan wrote- to which Janssen confirmed: '9 on-air folks from News, Weather and Sports were cut. I was one of those purged.'
A further six news writers and three technical director positions were lost in a separate round of cuts last month. Four floor director positions were already eliminated in October, sources told the Tribune.
Meanwhile, WGN remains a diamond-the-rough and a ratings powerhouse - amid a greater landscape of languishing local news stations.
Widely seen as the gold standard, WGN still needs to make way for the mountain of debt Nexstar will assume from Tegna, after Nexstar already paid $4.1billion for the network in 2019 as part of an acquisition of Chicago-based Tribune Media.
The move made Nexstar the largest local TV station group in the country - now set to expand with a $6.8 billion merger with Tegna.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) boss Brendan Carr indicated he was ready to move forward with the merger last week.
Nexstar made headlines late last year for its decision to pull 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' from its ABC-affiliated stations over comments the late-night host made in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Nexstar reinstated the show nine days later after fierce backlash from viewers.
In 2021, the company also rebranded the network formerly known as WGN America into NewsNation - a right-leaning cable network that competes with Fox News, MS NOW and CNN.
A Nexstar spokesperson said of the layoffs seen this week: 'Nexstar does not comment on personnel issues, but the company is taking steps necessary to compete effectively in this period of unprecedented change.'
[IsraelTimes] France’s spat with the US ambassador to Paris took another turn today with the French foreign minister saying the top US diplomat in France must respond to a summons and won’t have access to French government officials until he complies.
French authorities had summoned Ambassador Charles Kushner — the father of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner — for a meeting yesterday evening over comments from the Trump administration that France objected to. French diplomats said Kushner did not show up.
Speaking today, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot describes the failure to attend the meeting as “a surprise” that flew in the face of diplomatic protocol and will dent Charles Kushner’s ability to serve as an ambassador.
“It will, naturally, affect his capacity to exercise his mission in our country,” Barrot says, speaking to public broadcaster France Info.
He says that Kushner “is bringing difficulties on himself. Because for an ambassador to be able to do his job he needs access to members of the government. That’s the basics.”
“When these explanations have taken place, then the US ambassador in France will, naturally, regain access to members of the French government,” the minister says.
The US Embassy did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment on Monday and a follow-up request this morning also got no immediate reply.
France’s foreign ministry had summoned Kushner over Trump administration tweets relating to the beating death in France of a far-right activist, Quentin Deranque. The 23-year-old student, described as a fervent nationalist, was beaten by a group of people earlier this month in the city of Lyon, in fighting that erupted between far-left and far-right activists. He later died of brain injuries.
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No access to French government officials. I could get used to that.
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Marco should recall Kushner to Foggy Bottom for "consultations". We don't need various French popinjays who cover for leftist crimes to be chirping at him. Up their tariffs too, for effect.
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[FoxNews] The Pentagon has given artificial intelligence firm Anthropic until Friday to lift restrictions on how its Claude AI system can be used by the military, warning it could cancel a $200 million contract or take other punitive steps if the company refuses, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
The skirmish broke out after the Pentagon claimed Anthropic had asked whether its product was used in the January military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, in a way that suggested the company may not approve if it was. The Pentagon insists AI companies must allow products to be utilized for all lawful military use cases — without company oversight or approval.
Anthropic not being one of the Constitutionally defined branches of government, after all.
Anthropic denies discussing use of Claude for specific operations and suggests its red lines are not allowing its products to be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered an ultimatum during a Tuesday meeting at the Pentagon with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, even as Hegseth praised the company’s technology and said the department wants to continue working with the firm, sources said.
Hegseth told Amodei that if the company did not allow Claude to be used for all lawful purposes, it could face termination of its Pentagon contract, designation as a supply chain risk — potentially limiting its ability to work with defense vendors — or possible invocation of the Defense Production Act to compel access to the technology, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
Claude is currently the only advanced, commercial AI model of its kind operating inside the Pentagon’s classified networks, under a $200 million contract awarded in summer 2025, significantly raising the stakes of the dispute.
Pentagon officials argue the Department of Defense cannot depend on a private company that maintains categorical restrictions on certain uses of its technology, even if those uses are lawful. During the meeting, Hegseth compared the situation to being told the military could not use a specific aircraft for a mission, according to a source familiar with the exchange.
The dispute represents an early test of who controls the guardrails on advanced AI inside U.S. defense systems — private companies or the Pentagon. The outcome could shape how the military partners with leading AI developers as it moves to integrate more powerful machine learning tools into national security operations.
Anthropic, which has branded itself as a safety-oriented AI company, has said its policies are meant to reduce the risk of misuse as advanced AI systems become more powerful.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has finally addressed the president's announcement to release all government files related to UFOs and aliens.
