[MAIL] Horrific footage of a career criminal stabbing a Ukrainian refugee from behind on a North Carolina train has prompted a national uproar - but you won't find it on any liberal media websites.
Recently surfaced surveillance footage shows the suspect, whom police have named as Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, killing Iryna Zarutska, 23, on board a South End light rail train in Charlotte on August 22.
The crazed attacker can be seen lunging at Zarutska from behind, before the footage skips the graphic slaughter to show him carrying a knife dripping with blood as he walked through the train carriage and another passenger sprinted away.
Zarutska came to the US for safety after fleeing Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of her home country, and the shocking video of her final moments exploded online.
People took to social media to share their sadness that she was not protected by the state of North Carolina or the liberal city of Charlotte, where Brown had allegedly been arrested more than 14 times previously but remained on the streets.
However, the shocking story is notably absent from US liberal media sites, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and CNN.
The Daily Mail has contacted the outlets for clarification on the reasoning behind their editorial judgment.
Democrat Mayor of Charlotte Vi Lyles suggested that some publishers chose not to share the footage 'out of respect for Iryna's family' - but the police force she is in charge of made the video public first of all.
The Daily Mail has contacted Lyles's office for more information.
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See Media Blackout Regarding Charlotte Murder Is Pure Evil in which Mayor Vile says "The video of the heartbreaking attack that took Iryna Zarutska’s life is now public. I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to repost or share the footage out of respect for Iryna’s family."
Then PJ Media says "The line `our media partners` is chilling here. What happened to a media/journalist class that speaks truth to power?"
Exactly.
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Also, as noted in the PJ Media article, the same media had no trouble replaying the video of George Floyd's death ad nauseam.
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If it bleeds it leads It's a local story.
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[FoxNews] Decarlos Brown attacked 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in random assault captured on transit surveillance footage.
Records obtained by The New York Post showed that Brown has a history of arrests going back more than a decade, including charges of felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats. Police said Brown and Zarutska did not know each other and the attack had been random.
The surveillance footage, released by the Carlotte Area Transit System (CATS), shows 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska boarding the Lynx Bline line just after 9:45 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22.
The footage shows Zarutska in her pizzeria uniform while scrolling on her phone. A man in a red hoodie is seen sitting behind her. Around four minutes later, the man pulls out a knife and begins stabbing Zarutska three times, including at least once in the neck.
Zarutska, who had fled war-town Ukraine, grabs her neck as blood spills onto the floor. Authorities later pronounced her dead at the scene. The video shows the suspect walk through the rail car, take off his sweatshirt, and wait by the doors as passengers look on.
According to a police affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police responded to an emergency call from the Lynx Blue Line near 1821 Camden Road. Witnesses reported that a man had stabbed a woman in the throat inside a train car.
Officers arrived to find 34-year-old Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. on the outbound platform, wearing clothing that matched the suspect's description, court documents revealed. Authorities said he had a cut on his right hand and was taken into custody after receiving medical attention.
[FoxNews] Police released mugshots of the two 17-year-olds accused in the June shooting death of a Capitol Hill intern in Washington, D.C.
The victim, 21-year-old University of Massachusetts Amherst student Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern for Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., was fatally shot June 30 about a mile from the White House.
Suspects Kelvin Thomas Jr., of Southeast D.C., and Jailen Lucas, of Northwest D.C., are pictured in mugshots obtained by FOX5 DC.
The two were arrested Friday and charged as adults with premeditated first-degree murder while armed. Police are also searching for Naqwan Antonio Lucas, 18, who is wanted on a D.C. Superior Court warrant for premeditated first-degree murder while armed.
Police said the suspects also injured a woman and a 16-year-old boy during the attack.
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[Regnum] In the southwest of Côte d'Ivoire, a hippopotamus capsized a boat in a river, leaving 11 people missing, including a baby. This was reported by the country's Minister of National Cohesion and Solidarity Belmondo Dogo.
“It is with great sadness that we learned of the disappearance of 11 people, including women, girls and a baby, after a boat capsized due to a hippopotamus attack,” she wrote on Facebook (owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).
The incident occurred on the morning of September 5 on the Sassandra River near the town of Buyo. There were 14 people in the boat, three of whom were rescued. The search for the rest continues.
Hippos are considered herbivores, but there have been recorded cases of them attacking people. In December 2023, a hippopotamus attacked two zookeepers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, maiming one of them.
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[Regnum] A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has occurred in western Turkey, and its tremors were felt in Istanbul. This was reported on Sunday, September 7, by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center.
According to him, the epicenter of the seismic event was located 58 km southeast of the Turkish province of Balikesir, where 238 thousand people live. The epicenter of the tremors was at a depth of 8 km.
There were no reports of casualties or damage.
The earthquake was also felt in western Istanbul, according to Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD).
[American Liberty] n a 6—3 ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s ban on aggressive immigration enforcement tactics in the Los Angeles area.
The original restriction, issued by Judge Maame E. Frimpong, had barred federal agents — including ICE — from making stops based solely on race, language, accent, occupation, or location unless they had reasonable suspicion.
Although Frimpong ruled that federal authorities engaged in unlawful racial profiling, the Supreme Court rejected that finding.
The Court’s decision clears the way for broader immigration operations in greater Los Angeles, one of the country’s largest hubs for illegal immigrants.
The conservative majority agreed that the previous limitations tied the hands of federal agents. The Trump administration had long argued the restrictions made it harder to tackle illegal immigration effectively.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, joined by the Court’s other liberal justices. She claimed the decision opens the door to racial profiling and threatens constitutional rights.
Still, the ruling reinforces a basic principle: Federal immigration law is federal. And when it comes to enforcing it, the Supreme Court just gave the green light.
A stop-and-frisk refers to a brief non-intrusive police stop of an individual. The Fourth Amendment requires that before stopping the suspect, the police must have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed by the suspect. If the police reasonably believe that the suspected individual is armed and dangerous, the police may frisk them, meaning that the police will give a quick pat-down of the suspect's outer clothing. The frisk is also called a Terry Stop, derived from the Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968). The Court in Terry held that a stop-and-frisk must comply with the Fourth Amendment, meaning that the stop-and-frisk cannot be unreasonable. According to the Terry Court, a reasonable stop-and-frisk is one "in which a reasonably prudent officer is warranted in the circumstances of a given case in believing that his safety or that of others is endangered, he may make a reasonable search for weapons of the person believed by him to be armed and dangerous." Stop-and-frisks fall under criminal law, as opposed to civil law.
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I have a question for all Rantburgers. How do you prove citizenship when you're stopped by ICE? In Germany most of us carry our National ID Card, but what would you do?
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^ A driver's license should do it. In California, Governor (Dippity Do) Newsom's Department of Motor Vehicles will issue a driver's license to illegal aliens. The DMV has also been accused of registering illegal aliens to vote at the same time. I believe it. That's Newsom for you. But a new category of driver's license called "Real ID" requires proof of citizenship and that means a birth certificate among other things. I don't know what the law is in other states but a federal law that recently went into effect requires a real id for air travel. I think eventually all citizens will need a real id.
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#2 -- Speak fluent English.
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#2 -- Avoid "driving like a Mexican" and always have driver's license, current registration and insurance card available for examination.
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For American citizens a photo ID issued by the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles suffices. Usually a driver’s license, the BMV for a smaller fee will issue a non-driver ID useful for all identification purposes other than driving. Otherwise the person must carry either a Green Card — a photo ID issued by the federal government to show he is a legal resident — or his passport.
For example, after my mother stopped driving, we got her a photo ID from the same office where we’d previously got her driver’s license. It was a royal production, because in the meantime the US State Department demanded that she show proof of all the name changes — birth, first marriage, second marriage — which meant I had to find her German birth certificate with notarized translation, marriage certificate to her first husband, naturalization papers under her married name showing that she was indeed an American citizen, his death certificate to show that her marriage to her second husband was legal, and the marriage certificate to her second husband with the updated citizenship certificate thereafter, showing her final name.
Waffle House opened its first restaurant on Sept. 5, 1955, in Avondale Estates, Georgia.
The chain now has nearly 2,000 locations in 25 states, with its first diner preserved as the Waffle House Museum.
Known for hash browns and all-night service, Waffle House is even part of FEMA’s "Waffle House Index" for disaster response.
On Sept. 5, 1955, a small yellow-signed diner opened its doors in Avondale Estates, Georgia. Seventy years later, that single Waffle House has grown into a cultural institution with nearly 2,000 restaurants across 25 states.
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Founded by Joe Rogers Sr., a restaurant manager, and Tom Forkner, a real estate agent, the chain built its reputation on serving hearty food 24 hours a day, seven days a week. While waffles gave the restaurant its name, it was the hash browns — served "scattered, smothered, covered" and beyond — that cemented Waffle House in the Southern food tradition.
Over the decades, Waffle House became more than a restaurant. The Federal Emergency Management Agency even adopted the "Waffle House Index" as an informal measure of disaster severity: if a Waffle House is closed after a storm, conditions are dire.
Its cultural reach has extended into music, late-night comedy, and road-trip lore, making the diner a backdrop for both everyday meals and unforgettable moments. The chain’s first restaurant is now preserved as the Waffle House Museum, celebrating its roots and memorabilia from the brand’s seven decades
As the company celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2025, Waffle House remains a gathering spot for shift workers, college students, families, and travelers. The recipe for success has stayed simple: hot coffee, a warm grill, and a place that never turns off the lights.
Waffle House Fast Facts
70 years since the first diner opened on Sept. 5, 1955
1,900+ restaurants across 25 states
Employs more than 40,000 people
It was named after its most expensive item on the menu when it opened
Atlanta has the most Waffle Houses of any city
124 waffles served yearly
85 million strips of bacon cooked yearly
153 million hashbrown orders taken each year
272 million eggs used each year
58 million cups of coffee poured each year
10 million chicken breasts cooked each year
Has grilled more than 134 million T-bone steaks since 1955
Once sold Chick-fil-A sandwiches
272 orders of hash browns per minute scattered, smothered, and covered
Has its own record label that creates breakfast-themed music, including "There Are Raisins In My Toast"
Referenced in popular music such as Jermaine Dupri's "Welcome to Atlanta" and Hootie & Blowfish album "Scattered, Smothered and Covered"
10,000+ employees company-wide
Open 24/7 365 days of the year
1 museum: the original 1955 Avondale Estates restaurant, now the Waffle House Museum
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I like the food, cost and service there. Not sure why folks go there to pick fights.
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I dunno. Many years ago I ate breakfast at a Waffle House in Dallas and I was disappointed to learn that they do not have real butter for their waffles. They had some kind of margarine or "spread" or something. I passed on that.
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[IsraelTimes] Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ’s libertarian President Javier Milei suffers a major electoral setback in Buenos Aires, where his party was crushed in provincial vote seen as a key test.
With 86 percent of the votes counted, the center-left Fuerza Patria coalition has taken 46% of the vote against nearly 34% for Milei’s ruling La Libertad Avanza, voting authorities announce.
The gap between his party and the center-left Peronist ...another whack at Fascism that did't work, except for the musical... movement, whose candidate he easily defeated for the presidency in October 2023, is far greater than polls had predicted.
Buenos Aires’s votes are telling as a bellweather for Argentina. The province contributes more than 30% of Argentina’s GDP and accounts for 40% of all eligible voters. Turnout in the election was high, at around 63%.
[NYPOST] Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis at a shaky moment for the world's fourth-largest economy.
Ishiba, 68, instructed his Liberal Democratic Party — which has governed Japan for almost all of the post-war era — to hold an emergency leadership race, he told a press conference, adding he would continue his duties until his successor was elected.
Since coming to power less than a year ago, Ishiba has overseen his ruling coalition lose its majorities in elections for both houses of parliament amid voter anger over rising living costs.
Until Sunday, he had refused calls to step down following the latest of those losses in July's upper house vote.
He had focused instead on ironing out details of a trade deal with the United States on President Donald Trump's tariffs, which have roiled Japan's critical automotive industry and cast a shadow over weak growth
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[Regnum] The leading states that are part of OPEC+ have decided to increase the volume of oil produced by 137 thousand bpd due to positive fundamental figures on the market. This was announced by OPEC on September 7 after the G8 talks.
“In light of the stable global economic outlook and favourable market fundamentals, reflected in low oil inventories, the eight member countries decided to adjust production by 137,000 barrels per day (bpd), compared to 1.65 million bpd announced in April 2023,” the organisation said.
They added that the G8 would continue to meet monthly to provide timely analysis of market performance, compliance and compensation.
It is known that the next negotiations are scheduled for October 5.
On August 3, the eight members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Plus (OPEC+), including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman, agreed to increase oil production in September by 548,000 barrels per day. The organization clarified that in taking such measures, the states took into account the stable outlook for the global economy and the current favorable market indicators reflected in low oil inventories.
More Turkish harassment of the non-violent Kurds. And then they go after the remainder for being violent, because the real issue is that the Kurds are having more babies despite President Erdogan’s best efforts to encourage his people.
[TurkiyeToday] Police established a security perimeter around the Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul headquarters on Sunday night after a court temporarily removed the party's elected local leadership and appointed interim administrators, leading to gatherings by party members and exchanges between government officials and CHP leaders.
The standoff began when Istanbul's 45th Civil Court of First Instance issued a ruling on Tuesday that temporarily removed CHP Istanbul Chairman Ozgur Celik and the party's local boards from office, appointing a temporary committee in their place following allegations of irregularities during the party's Istanbul congress.
Two members of the court-appointed committee, Hasan Babacan and Mujdat Gurbuz, subsequently resigned from their positions.
Gursel Tekin, the selected CHP Istanbul Chairman, announced he would enter the party building on Monday, while the removed chairman Celik remained in the chairman's office on Sunday, posting on social media: "We will protect our people's house."
[TOWNHALL] A former employee of the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency pleaded guilty to take bribes.
Janine Rayford, 39, of Redford, pleaded guilty before Judge Judith E. Levy. She admitted to causing about $2.86 million in benefits issued to claimants. She conspired to commit federal program bribery and engaging in aggravated identity theft.
Court records say that while Rayford worked for the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, Rayford accepted more than $50,000 in bribe payments.
She admitted that she accessed unemployment insurance assistance claims without authorization; improperly dismissed and closed fraud prevention triggers and information requests relating to claims, including claims she knew to be fraudulent; and caused improper benefit payments to be issued.
Sentencing is set for January 8, 2026, before Judge Levy. Rayford faces a mandatory two-year sentence of imprisonment for having engaged in aggravated identity theft and also faces up to five years' imprisonment for having conspired to engaged in federal program bribery.
U.S. Attorney Gorgon stated, ''If you're a public official whose side hustle is taking bribes, your next job will be answering to a judge. Corruption destroys public trust in government and will be aggressively prosecuted by my office.''
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Surprised she didn’t end up in higher office.
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[FoxNews] Authorities arrested some 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai factory
The South Korean government has reached a deal with the U.S. to secure the release of hundreds of migrant workers detained at a Hyundai automobile factory in Georgia.
Homeland Security Investigations said 475 people who were in the country illegally, primarily from South Korea, were arrested as part of the operation at the under-construction battery plant. Hyundai owns the plant, but claimed none of the workers were directly employed by the company.
President Lee Jae Myung's office says the country will send a charter plane to bring the workers back to South Korea in the coming days.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement last week to express "concern and regret" over the raid.
HSI Georgia chief Steven Schrank said some of the detained workers had illegally crossed the U.S. border, while others had entered the country legally but had expired visas or had entered on a visa waiver that prohibited them from working.
HSI said some of the workers arrested were employed by subcontractors on the construction site, which has since been paused. Fox News Digital reported that ICE and other law enforcement agencies were part of the operation.
"As of today, it is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Company," Hyundai told Fox News Digital in a statement. "We prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone working at the site and comply with all laws and regulations wherever we operate."
Workplace raids have become an increasingly common operation for immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump's administration.
[BBC] Some 1,400 Catholics donning rainbow attire and carrying crosses are taking part in the first officially recognised LGBTQ+ pilgrimage to Rome as part of the Vatican's Jubilee Year.
Coming from 20 countries, pilgrims are attending prayer vigils, masses and other activities this weekend - though they will not have a private audience with Pope Leo XIV.
His predecessor Pope Francis, who died in April, did not change the Roman Catholic Church doctrine regarding the LGBTQ+ community - but made overtures in a decree in 2023.
These included allowing priests to bless same-sex couples - a move that angered conservatives Catholics, notably in Africa.
On Saturday, members from the LGBTQ+ community entered St Peter's Basilica though its Holy Door - a procession that symbolises reconciliation.
The door only opens once in 25 years to mark the Roman Catholic Church's jubilee years.
"Not only are LGBTQ people marching and walking to say that they're part of the Church, but official Church institutions are welcoming them and helping them to tell their stories," Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, was quoted as saying by the National Catholic Reporter website.
The ministry helps advocate for the LGBTQ+ community within the Catholic Church
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Passing through the Holy Door is a prophetic act that has a spiritual effect that none of those people understand. Folks that are blind to the spiritual world ought not to mess around in that regard. It is a Mercy door and has changed many people’s hearts and lives in a positive way. They are trying to change The Church, but they are inviting God to help them. Something will change when you put things in God’s hand. You do surrender your control of the outcome.
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[Regnum] On the night of September 7, a flare of the penultimate power class occurred on the Sun. This was reported by the press service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics (Federal State Budgetary Institution "IPG").
“On September 7 at 01:15 Moscow time, an M1.2 flare lasting 10 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4207 (N28W16),” the institute’s website said.
Solar flares are divided into five classes depending on the power of X-ray radiation: A, B, C, M and X. The minimum class A0.0 corresponds to a radiation power in Earth orbit of 10 nW per 1 sq. m, and when moving to the next letter, their power increases tenfold.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Just TheNews] Pritzker said there could be up to 300 Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) agents soon coming to the city.
...another whack at Fascism that did't work, except for the musical...
