Report Charges Maui Death Toll Close to 500 and Rising

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The official death toll for the wildfire catastrophe on the island of Maui is running at about 111 now, and is expected to rise.

But a published report on Friday charged that the toll now is closer to 500 – and still rising.

The report in the Daily Mail cites claims from local residents who “have been forced to carry out their own search and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the deadly Lahaina wildfires.”

A source, Maui resident Allisen Medina, 24, told the publication, “I know there are at least 480 dead here in Maui and I don’t understand why they’re not saying that.”

She said the horror has included family members “being left to find the charred corpses of their loved ones themselves.” (Read more from “Report Charges Maui Death Toll Close to 500 and Rising” HERE)

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FBI Arrests 10 Police Officers in ‘Wide Ranging’ Federal Corruption Case

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has filed charges against 10 present and former police officers from the California cities of Antioch and Pittsburg Thursday in a major federal corruption case.

“Today is a dark day in our city’s history, as people trusted to uphold the law, allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the FBI,” Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe said in a statement.

The charges range from cheating on training courses to serious violations of civil rights, Mercury News reported. The focus of the allegations is mainly on Antioch Police Department (APD), which has reportedly faced complaints about excessive force and a scandal involving racist text messages.

Three officers, two currently serving and one former, are accused of committing civil rights violations, per Mercury News. The charges alleged they planned violence against specific people, kept “trophies” of their actions and lied in official reports to cover up their deeds.

Text messages exchanged between the officers reportedly reveal conversations discussing violent plans and sharing pictures of the people they targeted. In one instance, officers discussed a plan for violence, Mercury News noted. (Read more from “FBI Arrests 10 Police Officers in ‘Wide Ranging’ Federal Corruption Case” HERE)

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Poll: Ramaswamy Surges to Second Place Over DeSantis, Trump Up 40 Points

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While former President Donald Trump maintains a commanding 40-point lead over his Republican primary challengers, Vivek Ramaswamy has surged over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take second place, a new Echelon Insight poll found.

Trump is the clear frontrunner for the GOP nomination, with 55 percent of likely primary voters supporting the former president. However, the longstanding second-place option, DeSantis, continued his descent in the poll, falling into third place.

Ramaswamy received 15 percent support, while DeSantis received just 12 percent in the RNC debate qualifying poll. Ramaswamy’s second-place stance aligns with a Kaplan Strategies poll released Monday that also found him above DeSantis.

Republican Main Street Partnership president and CEO Sarah Chamberlain said Ramaswamy “has risen well above expectations and is currently leading the pack of challengers.” (Read more from “Poll: Ramaswamy Surges to Second Place Over DeSantis, Trump Up 40 Points” HERE)

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Hurricane Hilary Hits Category 4; First Tropical Storm Watch for California in History

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Hurricane Hilary reached Category 4 status on Friday morning, and the National Hurricane Center issued its first-ever tropical storm watch for Southern California, as the entire southwestern region braces for heavy rains, high surf, and flash flooding.

The tropical storm watch was extended to all of Los Angeles County, and much of Ventura County, as of 3 p.m. PST Friday.

The storm, off the west coast of Mexico and moving northwards as of midday Friday, has maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour. Hurricane watches have been issued for Baja California, and a tropical storm watch for San Diego and Orange counties. . .

Heavy rainfall is also expected, especially in the inland mountains and desert regions, which are normally dry this time of year.

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Former Target Exec Says Pride Month ‘Misstep’ Helped Cause Massive Sales Slump

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Former Target Vice Chairman Gerald Storch told Fox News the company’s Pride month stance contributed at least 20% to the sales slump it has suffered since June.

Target’s quarterly sales fell for the first time in six years, according to an earnings report released Wednesday. The company featured a Pride Month collection that included LGBT merchandise marketed to kids in May.

“Your job is to meet the needs of your customers, not to pick a fight with anybody,” Storch said Thursday. “There’s no doubt that Target took a misstep with Pride Month.”

“It’s certainly impacted them. There’s no doubt about it,” Storch said of Target’s Pride merchandise. “But I would say it’s probably 20% of the [5% decline]. Not the main part of it.”

Storch added corporations need to think about the values of their customer base when deciding to take public stands on controversial issues. (Read more from “Former Target Exec Says Pride Month ‘Misstep’ Helped Cause Massive Sales Slump” HERE)

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Donald Trump Cancels Press Conference on Georgia Election Fraud Claims, Citing Attorneys’ Advice

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Former President Donald Trump now says he won’t be holding a press conference next week to unveil what he claims is new evidence of fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia, citing the advice of lawyers.

No compelling evidence of the wide-scale fraud Trump alleges has emerged in the two-and-a-half years since the election. Republican officials in the state – where three recounts confirmed Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden – have long said he lost legitimately.

“Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment,” he wrote on his social media site Thursday evening. He added, “Therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary!” (Read more from “Donald Trump Cancels Press Conference on Georgia Election Fraud Claims, Citing Attorneys’ Advice” HERE)

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Pilot Collapses Mid-Flight in the Bathroom, Prompting Emergency Landing of Boeing 787

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A pilot collapsed in the bathroom during a commercial flight from Miami to Chile, which prompted an emergency landing in Panama City, Panama, by his co-pilots. The pilot later died.

At around 11 p.m., the pilot of a Boeing 787 allegedly collapsed from a cardiac arrest while in the bathroom after the plane took off from Miami, the New York Post reported.

The flight was bound for Santiago, Chile, on LATAM airlines but was forced to make an emergency landing in Panama with grateful passengers applauding the flight crew in videos posted online.

The situation surrounding pilot Iván Andaur, 56, was cloudy due to anonymous reports allegedly from those aboard the flight.

“Unfortunately, we did not have the necessary or sufficient supplies to perform a good resuscitation,” a nurse, only identified as Isadora, claimed on social media, according to the Sun. (Read more from “Pilot Collapses Mid-Flight in the Bathroom, Prompting Emergency Landing of Boeing 787” HERE)

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Not Trump. Not Biden. Most Attacked Presidential Candidate Is Desantis by Far.

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The 2024 presidential race is headlined by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Yet the most attacked presidential candidate in the 2024 election is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – by a wide margin.

Despite Trump holding a commanding lead in the polls against DeSantis, the Republican Florida governor is the number-one target for attack ads.

DeSantis has been the target of $20.2 million in negative independent expenditures – a quarter of all independent expenditures in the 2024 election cycle, according to the Washington Examiner.

Nearly all of the negative independent expenditures against DeSantis came from the Trump-supporting super PAC Make America Great Again Inc. Just $45,712 came from other groups. The Trump super PAC spent only $3.2 million on attack ads against Biden.

Only $8.1 million of negative independent expenditures was directed toward Trump. Meanwhile, $9.2 million of negative independent expenditures were used against Biden. (Read more from “Not Trump. Not Biden. Most Attacked Presidential Candidate Is Desantis by Far.” HERE)

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Hunter Biden Misdemeanor Charges Dismissed by Judge Following Plea Deal Breakdown

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Hunter Biden’s misdemeanor tax charges have been dismissed by a federal judge in Delaware, an expected move after his “sweetheart” plea deal fell through last month during his first court appearance in the case.

The Justice Department submitted a filing last week to dismiss the case ahead of a possible trial on Biden’s felony gun charge in a different district.

After the plea deal fell apart, Biden pleaded “not guilty” as federal prosecutors confirmed he is still under federal investigation. He was expected to plead guilty to the two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of the plea deal to avoid jail time on the felony gun charge.

Biden’s attorneys and Special Counsel David Weiss are still fighting over a diversion agreement concerning the felony charge that would allow him to avoid any jail time. Weiss has indicated he plans to potentially take Biden to trial in the future in either Washington, D.C., or California.

On Tuesday, Weiss strongly rejected claims by Biden’s legal team that his office “reneged” on the plea deal for President Biden’s son to resolve the federal tax and gun charges, while stressing that agreement was “not in effect.” (Read more from “Hunter Biden Misdemeanor Charges Dismissed by Judge Following Plea Deal Breakdown” HERE)

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Biden Oversees Record Border Crossers in U.S. With Unresolved Asylum Claims, Outpacing Populations of 11 States

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Under President Joe Biden’s watch, now more than 1.6 million border crossers are in the United States with unresolved asylum claims. The majority, based on federal data, will have their asylum claims denied.

The data, reviewed and published by Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), reveals the extent to which Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is carrying out an expansive catch and release network, releasing tens of thousands of border crossers into the U.S. interior every month — most with dubious asylum claims.

As of March, there are now more than 1.6 million border crossers in the U.S. with unresolved asylum claims, Arthur details:

That’s more applicants that residents in 11 U.S. states, and an insurmountable burden for adjudicators, as the Biden administration has effectively broken the asylum system, and seeks to hide the damage.
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According to Arthur, “Biden’s DHS has released nearly every alien [Customs and Border Patrol] has encountered at the southwest border.” In hundreds of thousands of cases, border crossers in the U.S. will not have their claims adjudicated for nearly a decade. (Read more from “Biden Oversees Record Border Crossers in U.S. With Unresolved Asylum Claims, Outpacing Populations of 11 States” HERE)

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