[FoxNews] Police say hundreds gathered at the Florida beach before a fight broke out and shots were fired Sunday evening.
Clearwater, Florida, police are warning of a shutdown of "teen takeovers" after a boy, 17, was hospitalized following a shooting tied to a social media meetup Sunday.
The Clearwater Police Department's threat management unit was made "aware of a planned gathering at the beach," Deputy Chief Michael Walek said at a Sunday night news conference, adding that "some of those people who gathered decided to break the law tonight."
"That kind of behavior cannot and will not be tolerated," he continued.
"I want to send a very, very clear message to anyone who plans to come here and engage in the kind of behavior that we saw this evening: Don't do it; if you do, your trip to the beach will end up with a trip to jail."
Police nationwide have been dealing with a spate of teen gatherings that have led to lawlessness.
"You can phrase it however you want: Teen takeover, meetup, it's all organized on social media," Walek said, stating that hundreds of people gathered in this incident that led to the shooting that occurred during a fight that broke out.
The shooting happened around 5:15 p.m. ET on Sunday in the 100 block of Coronado Drive, according to Clearwater Police. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found the teenage victim suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital.
"His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening," Walek said.
The police deployed extra officers and resources as several disturbances broke out across the area and officers detained several people after the shooting, though others fled the scene, according to Walek.
Police have not publicly identified those detained, announced charges or said whether they recovered the weapon used in the shooting.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene as gunfire erupted near the beach.
"I heard probably what I figured 6 or 7 gunshots," beach resident Dylan Gilbert told Fox 13 Tampa Bay. "I was like what’s going on."
Resident Janette Walker said she and her daughter saw the injured teenager after the shooting.
"I told my daughter, oh my god, that boy was shot," Walker told the local station. "They have towels on his stomach, and they could see blood coming through, and it looked like he got shot in the stomach."
The incident unfolded during the first weekend after school let out, a time when police said they were already aware of an uptick in teen beach attendance and had additional resources in place, with assistance from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and Largo Police Department.
"This is the first weekend of school being out and this is going to be the last weekend that this type happens," Walek said.
Residents said the repeated large gatherings have become a threat to public safety and a burden on businesses that rely on beach visitors.
"It’s been a crisis for years," Walker said. "They need to really crack down and figure out who’s doing the Facebook, who’s sponsoring it and stop it."
Walker said the takeovers are damaging the beach community.
"These takeovers are ruining it for the people who work down here and are trying to make a living," she said. "Everybody we heard from today are pissed off."
Police have not released the identity of the injured teenager or said who organized the gathering online. Investigators also have not confirmed how many shots were fired.
Walek emphasized that despite the violence, Clearwater Beach remains safe for families and visitors, and said police intend to prevent future meetups from escalating.
"Clearwater Beach is family friendly; it’s safe," Walek said. "This is a bunch of kids acting like kids, and I’m telling you it won’t happen again."
In a video shared Sunday by Right Angle News Network, a woman identified as Rhonda Lee said, "God, please kill this motherf-----2. He needs to f---ing die. I've never felt like that about anyone."
Lee, who, according to her LinkedIn, worked at University of Michigan Medical Center beginning in March 2000, but has not been employed there since 2023, continued, "Given my profession, it's counterintuitive but you know what? F--- that guy. He f---ing needs to die."
Lee added, "I have never been a violent person, but I'm about to drive up there with my god---- neck knife and give that motherf----- a smiley face across his god--- neck. F-- him. I hate that b----."
[FoxNews] John Elijah Matthews charged with murder in the death of Margaret Swan aboard public transportation
A 66-year-old Atlanta woman was fatally stabbed aboard a MARTA train in what transit police described as a random attack.
The victim, identified by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office as 66-year-old Margaret Swan, was attacked as a train traveled between the Lakewood-Fort McPherson and Oakland City stations, according to MARTA Police Chief Scott Kreher.
"This appears to be a senseless act of violence, and our thoughts are with the victim's loved ones and those who witnessed this horrific incident," MARTA said in a statement.
John Elijah Matthews, 25,
…still feral, no longer a yoot…
is charged with murder malice in the death of the 66-year-old on board the public transportation.
According to the warrant obtained by FOX 5 Atlanta, the passenger was sitting alone on the train when Matthews began the alleged stabbing attack.
At 11:21 on Saturday, the CCTV reportedly showed Swan sitting alone on the train car. Just before 11:25, Matthews is seen on board, walking to the side of the train where Swan was sitting, standing near her alone.
Matthews, 19 seconds later, "is seen walking up to (Swan) and standing just to her right."
Several seconds later, he allegedly took out a knife, opened it and cut the victim in the throat. 11Alive reported that Swan was stabbed 18 to 20 times in an unprovoked attack.
During the attack, the warrant said, the victim was screaming for help as she was continuing to get stabbed. The suspect was then seen on the CCTV cameras "throwing [Swan] to the floor and standing near her until the train arrived at the Oakland City Station," less than two minutes later, according to the warrant.
When the train arrived at Oakland City, according to the warrant, Matthews got out with a knife still in hand as officers rushed to the scene. Matthews was arrested and charged shortly after.
Emergency medical workers attempted life-saving efforts, but Swan died on the scene.
The stabbing comes as Atlanta passengers have grown increasingly worried about train safety. Last week, according to FOX 5, a man was stabbed multiple times at the Georgia State Station.
The great-grandmother mercilessly butchered by an alleged homeless lunatic
…another of the ignored violently mentally ill who should be kept in a locked mental ward for his own safety as well as the rest of us…
on an Atlanta train was carrying a knife – but didn’t have time to pull it out and try to defend herself, according to her grieving daughter.
Margaret Swan, 66, carried the knife for protection as she spent decades riding the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority after never learning to drive, relying on the commuter rail every day before her throat was slashed and she was stabbed nearly two dozen times early Saturday.
Swan was sitting alone on the train around 11:20 a.m. when John Elijah Matthews, 25, was caught on chilling surveillance footage boarding and hovering over her
…he knew he would kill, he just needed to figure out if she was the one…
before allegedly pulling out a knife and slitting her throat, according to a warrant obtained by the outlet.
The unwitting passenger – a mother of three, grandmother of five and great-grandmother of four – screamed and tried to escape, but the suspect allegedly held her down and stabbed her another 18 to 20 times before leaving her dead on the ground in a large pool of her own blood.
“She was screaming for help, and nobody was helping her,” Sams told The Post on Monday.
Matthews was quickly arrested on the platform at Oakland City Station still brandishing a knife.
The devastated daughter ripped local officials for temporarily opening the transit system to free riders, including the homeless, during systemwide renovations and failing to properly police its stations.
“To me, it’s negligence with the security and the patrolling,” Sams said.
“Anybody has access to get on and off the trains. If you’re allowing free stuff like that, for me, police patrolling was negligent, there was no security, there was nothing. This whole situation is a situation that could have been prevented.”
Matthews, who was reportedly homeless, faces one count of felony murder.
I ask because the San Diego Trolley has no turnstyles and precious little ticket enforcement. Hobos, hoods and other undesirables are not asked for their tickets before they board and so they don't bother buying one. Dunno if that's the case in Atlanta or not but I have reason to believe that strict ticket enforcement would cut down on some of these incidents.
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No ticket, Abu Uluque:
The devastated daughter ripped local officials for temporarily opening the transit system to free riders, including the homeless, during systemwide renovations and failing to properly police its stations.
“To me, it’s negligence with the security and the patrolling,” Sams said.
“Anybody has access to get on and off the trains. If you’re allowing free stuff like that, for me, police patrolling was negligent, there was no security, there was nothing. This whole situation is a situation that could have been prevented.”
#10
Why would the feral not kill the ticket collecting agent?
If collecting tickets was enforced, they would have to be prepared to use lethal force when things eventually go sideways.
So frustrating to be have been taught that my forefathers lynched just for the hell of it. Fifty years later and I know better. We should bring back vigilante justice and lynching.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Robert Kilduff of Rescue Company Two responded to a raging three-alarm fire at 18 Treadway Road in Dorchester on Saturday night, when he plummeted from a third-story window.
Kilduff suffered critical injuries in the blaze and was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where he later died, according to Boston Fire Commissioner Rodney Marshall.
Known to loved ones as 'BK' and 'Bobby,' Kilduff rescued two people in the last 48 hours of his life.
The hero saved a young girl who tried to jump off a building in Fenway and rescued a homeless man stuck at a Boston transit yard, Boston Fire Lt Greg Kelly said.
Kilduff had been fending off fires for over 20 years, and is the first Boston firefighter in more than a decade to die in the line of duty.
He is remembered as 'the heart of the firehouse,' with colleagues saying he was selfless, in an emotional press conference.
[NYPost] The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia’s dreams of a glittering, futuristic city spanning his nation’s desert have come crashing down.
The futuristic, carbon-neutral Neom project has long been touted as an urban utopia erected upon cutting-edge, sustainable technology.
Its best-known component has been dubbed The Line – a sprawling 170km long, 500m high “smart city” which was supposed to be home to 9 million residents.
The Wall Street Journal previously claimed it had sourced leaked internal documents revealing The Line’s projected costs had exploded to a whopping $US8.8 trillion ($12.3 trillion) by 2080.
But now, reports have emerged indicating that the state-run company behind the project, Neom, has suspended all work on The Line until at least 2030.
The international news platform Semafor reports the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund has had a change of heart.
It’s redirecting cash flows affected by the Iran War and global energy transition towards more critical infrastructure, such as ports and AI data centres.
And Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s vanity projects are paying the price.
Adelaide has already fallen foul of the cost-cutting exercises of MbS’s sovereign wealth fund. Its $US5 billion carrot for the breakaway LIV Golf tour has been cut.
Neom Stadium, an integral part of The Line’s first construction phase, was being sold as a prime venue for the 2034 FIFA World Cup. But the future of the 46,000-seat sports field is yet to be confirmed.
And the $1.6 billion Neom Industrial City Connector (NICC) high-speed rail link to The Line has just had its contract terminated.
Then there’s the Trojena mountain resort.
Work on this vast artificial snow field slated to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games has been halted. The swirling engineering marvel was supposed to produce a luxurious, year-round haven 2km above the surrounding desert sands.
MARKET FORCES
Semafor, citing “people familiar with the matter”, reports that Neom funding is being restricted to its most productive components. This includes $US3 billion for the Oxagon industrial port city on the Red Sea.
This has suddenly become a strategic imperative.
Most of Saudi Arabia’s ports are in the Persian Gulf. These remain cut off from the rest of the world as the US/Israeli war against Iran struggles to find resolution.
The Crown Prince’s cash splash has become unaffordable.
Saudi Arabia’s enormous investment projects have failed to generate the expected excitement. Foreign investment and involvement have been poor. And expenditure has soared.
That’s despite the Iran war driving crude oil returns to a three-year high.
Oil revenues reached $US24.7 billion after the first month of the war as Saudi Arabia diverted some flows through its East-West pipeline, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. And its network of high-quality highways is carrying thousands of tonnes of fertiliser, diverted by truck across the desert, to its Red Sea ports.
But the nation’s economy is being hit hard in other sectors affected by supply chain disruptions.
“For Saudi Arabia, each month of fighting costs about 1.5 per cent of GDP in extra spending,” writes Bloomberg Economics analyst Ziad Daoud.
“For most of its neighbours, the bill is probably higher.”
So savings remain a necessity.
SEVERED DREAMS
“The decisions are the result of a strategic review conducted by Neom’s chief executive Aiman al-Mudaifer after his appointment last year,” reports Semafor’s Matthew Martin.
Work on The Cube (Mukaab), a $50 billion skyscraper project in Riyadh, was suspended in January. The massive 400m box design had been intended to dominate a new city centre.
And construction work on the 57km high-speed rail interconnector between The Line and Oxagon ended this week, at about 20 per cent complete.
Work began last year on redesigning The Line’s twin linear skyscrapers to cut costs. They had been envisaged as ultra-green, energy-efficient, AI-connected structures, filled to the brim with all the mod-cons.
It was ultimately supposed to house nine million people. And all transport along its 170km length was to be by an advanced internal electric shuttle system.
The future of this redesign work is also unknown.
“NEOM has also further scaled down ambitions for how many people will live in NEOM by 2030: the target is now up to 100,000 people,” Martin writes.
“At one point, NEOM executives had envisioned 1.5 million residents by the end of the decade before revising the forecast down to 300,000 two years ago.”
#3
I speculated in the past that the purpose of NEOM was to give the government there an excuse to displacement the local Bedouin, so there are no locals to tell people that the local mountain was the real Mt. Sinai.
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[Regnum] The peak of the 2026 Perseid meteor shower will be visible on the night of August 13, according to Mikhail Maslov, an engineer at the Vega Observatory at Novosibirsk State University.
“At this time, its activity reaches approximately 100 meteors per hour if you observe them outside the city, under a dark sky,” Maslov noted in a conversation with TASS.
The shower's radiant is located in the constellation Perseus. During its maximum, it will be located quite high above the horizon throughout the hours of darkness.
According to the specialist, observing conditions will improve by morning as the radiant altitude increases. Therefore, more meteors will be visible towards the end of the night.
Earlier, two asteroids the size of the Chelyabinsk meteorite passed close to Earth. One approached the planet at 6:15 PM Moscow time on May 18, and the other came within 91,000 km at 1:00 AM Moscow time on May 19.
[FoxNews] Sandy Police Chief Patrick Huskey said the wounded officer is in stable condition and expected to survive
An Oregon police officer was shot multiple times Sunday while responding to a domestic disturbance that left several people dead, authorities said.
Officers with the Sandy Police Department and Clackamas County Sheriff's Office rushed to the 39000 block of Evans Street in Sandy — about 30 miles east of Portland — just before 4 p.m. after reports of a domestic disturbance and shooting.
As officers arrived, gunfire broke out. Police returned fire, and one officer was struck multiple times.
The wounded officer was airlifted to a hospital by Life Flight and is expected to survive, according to the Sandy Police Department.
"The officer is in stable condition, and I'm extremely thankful that I can tell you that they are expected to survive," Sandy Police Chief Patrick Huskey said at a brief news conference on Sunday. "There are multiple victims deceased at this time."
Authorities have not released the number of victims or how they died.
The suspect barricaded inside the home, triggering a massive response from multiple law enforcement agencies and prompting shelter-in-place orders for nearby residents.
After several hours, the suspect surrendered shortly before 8 p.m. and was taken into custody without injury, police said.
The deaths are being investigated as a homicide, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
[ZERO] Update: Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, received a life sentence with a 21-year minimum on Monday for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
Judge William Mousley describes Nowak as a "much-loved, kind, hard-working and ambitious young man, devoted to his family and with a bright future."
Mousley includes agonizing testimony from Nowak’s family: Nowak’s death has caused his sister’s world to "fall apart," she said; Nowak’s father describes his son’s death as a "life sentence" for the family.
The judge then details the extensive lies he believes Digwa told to evade responsibility for the murder.
As Daily Caller noted, Mousley more or less excused the actions of the responding police officers, writing they "honestly believed that there were reasonable grounds for suspecting Henry had committed an offence and arrested him."
As Bruce Oliver Newsome detailed earlier via American Greatness, this had all the ingredients (except inverted) to become Britain's white 'George Floyd' moment.
The main Census release does not have an AI data center line. Instead, data center construction is lumped together with lots of other spending on business structures in the broader “office” categories. And that can create the misleading impression that office construction is booming. It jumped one percent in April and is up 9.4 percent from a year ago.
An office construction boom would be weird given the rise of remote work and the slow growth of the U.S. workforce. So what’s really going on?
If you look beneath the hood, you can see the real engine of growth is AI. Although the data doesn’t appear in the main release, the detailed data file from Census Bureau breaks office construction spending into three buckets: general, data center, and financial.
AI data center construction spending, on the other hand, is soaring. Compared with a year ago, it is up 28.1 percent to $50.7 billion. It now accounts for 52 percent of private office construction and 2.3 percent of all construction spending. On a longer timeline, the growth is truly explosive. Compared with February 2020, spending is up around 420 percent.
The shift has been remarkably fast. A year earlier, in April 2025, data centers accounted for 44.5 percent of private office construction. Two years earlier, in April 2024, they were just 32.9 percent. In dollar terms, data center construction has climbed from $28.3 billion in April 2024 to $39.6 billion in April 2025 and $50.7 billion in April 2026.
But the AI construction boom is not just data centers. We’re also seeing it in the line items covering private power construction spending. Private power construction, which includes gas and oil, rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $148.7 billion in April, up 6.0 percent from a year earlier. The more revealing figure is the electric subcategory. Electric power construction climbed to $127.1 billion, up 7.3 percent from April 2025 and 9.9 percent from two years earlier.
Electric now accounts for 85.4 percent of private power construction, up from 84.4 percent a year ago and 83.5 percent two years ago. In dollar terms, the electric category increased by $8.6 billion over the past year, slightly more than the entire $8.4 billion increase in the broader power category. That means the growth in power construction is really growth in the electric infrastructure needed for a more electricity-intensive economy, including the data centers, cooling systems, substations, transformers, and backup systems behind the AI buildout.
[NYPost] President Trump announced Tuesday he has named Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte acting director of national intelligence, replacing the departing Tulsi Gabbard.
“William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in revealing the surprise pick.
“During this period, he will remain Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Congratulations to Director Pulte!”
Pulte, the founder of Twitter Philanthropy and CEO of Pulte Capital and the grandson of home-building and real estate mogul William J. Pulte, would need to be confirmed by the Senate if nominated to take over for Gabbard on a permanent basis.
Gabbard’s last day as Director of National Intelligence will be June 30. She announced her departure last month, citing her husband Abraham’s recent bone cancer diagnosis.
Pulte, 38, has made headlines for using his post to go after the president’s political foes, having issued criminal referrals against New York AG Letitia James, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud.
The housing boss also ran afoul of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who threatened Pulte that he would “punch you in your f—ing face” this past September after word got back to Bessent that Pulte had trash-talked him to the president.
Pulte, who jockeyed during the post-2024 election transition to be Trump’s Housing and Urban Development secretary, also frequents the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said in a statement Tuesday that Trump had “chosen an official who has demonstrated not just willingness but eagerness to use the authorities of government to pursue political retribution.”
“The concern is not only that Mr. Pulte lacks the ‘extensive national security experience’ required by statute for the job, which was created after intelligence failures led to the deaths of thousands of Americans on 9/11. It is that he appears to have been selected precisely because the White House believes he will provide the narrative it wants, not the intelligence we need,” Warner added.
“Americans have every reason to worry about what happens when the official charged with overseeing everything from counterterrorism to foreign election threats is chosen for his willingness to advance the president’s political agenda rather than his experience. That is how intelligence becomes politicized, how inconvenient facts disappear, how agencies charged with protecting our democracy instead become tools to manipulate it, and how Americans are left more vulnerable to a terrorist attack.”
Reps for Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Gabbard had aligned with Trump on his priorities to investigate alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election and what she called a “treasonous conspiracy” by the Obama administration to “subvert” the 45th president’s victory in the 2016 election.
As spy chief, Gabbard had also convened a task force, known as the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG), to declassify federal records on the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations, so-called “Havana Syndrome” and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One member of that group, CIA special operations officer James Erdman III, testified to Congress earlier this month that there was a wide-ranging federal “cover-up” to downplay findings that SARS-CoV-2 most likely resulted from a laboratory accident in China.
Gabbard publicly supported Trump’s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury against Iran despite her past opposition to foreign intervention, testifying to the Senate in March that “the intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capability.”
But CIA Director John Ratcliffe was more frequently praised by the president for his role in both the ongoing Middle East operation, as well as the Jan. 3 apprehension and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone had been one of Gabbard’s staunchest defenders before her decision to exit, hailing the DNI head as “the most dedicated opponent of the deep state within the Trump administration.”
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I do plan to make a run to dc. Havent seen the fountains work since before Obama. Downtown like every other downtown across the nation has been one huge homeless camp. I remember getting off a metro stop and there being tents in the first public green space. Absolutely the worst president in our lives, how he succeeded in making everything i our lives worst, the opposite of jesus.
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[Regnum] Loneliness increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, which impacts life expectancy.Cardiologist, therapist, and functional diagnostics specialist Andrei Kondrakhin told Regnum News Agency on Monday, June 1. Of heart disease, depression, anxiety, and probably other things as well. People need people, at least some of the time.
"Several scientific studies show that single people live shorter lives than couples, but there are objective reasons for this. If we're talking about cardiovascular diseases, sometimes they're so severe that a person physically can't, for example, call an ambulance. A person may be left alone with the problem, and no one will help them," the doctor noted.
According to Kondrakhin, lonely people are in a state of chronic stress. High cortisol levels are particularly damaging to the cardiovascular system.
"Loneliness is, let's say, enduring all of life's troubles alone. It's hard because you have no one to share them with. This wears down our bodies. We have to do everything alone, without help, and it becomes especially difficult with age. Women cope with this more or less calmly, but men experience it much more severely. They are unable to cope with such a situation for long. In principle, this is difficult not only for the elderly but for anyone. We see a pattern: lonely people get sick more often and have more problems," the cardiologist concluded.
On May 3, cardiologist Philipp Kuzmenko explained to Regnum News Agency that there are no safe doses of alcohol. Even small amounts of alcohol can lead to the development of diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, among which hypertension is widespread.
In 2025, a 32-year-old Japanese woman married a character she created using a neural network. Family psychologist Radmila Strigunova, speaking with Regnum News Agency, emphasized that this story conceals a cry for help and profound loneliness.
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.
A 66-year-old Atlanta woman was fatally stabbed aboard a MARTA train in what transit police described as a random attack.
When the train arrived at Oakland City, according to the warrant, Matthews got out with a knife still in hand as officers rushed to the scene. Matthews was arrested and charged shortly after.
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