Author: J.P. Knowles

“How the governor of that state responded really highlights part of the problem because his response when there are 50 dead bodies in his state is to go straight to politics,” Harris said. “Instead of dealing with the realities of the issue.”

“These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott said in a tweet. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”

After some Republicans criticized the administration’s border policies, President Joe Biden retaliated against the governor and accused him of “political grandstanding.”

Republicans say that since the White House removed Trump-era immigration regulations, “open border policies” are to blame for the recent spike in migration at the southern border as well as Monday’s fatal incident.

Harris asserted that the administration is treating the problem of human smuggling, which has grown recently as traffickers try to make money out of one of the most contentious problems in the U.S., “seriously.”

Republicans blame the White House for the country’s immigration problems, while Harris acknowledged the Trump administration was to blame.

“We also need to take seriously the fact that we have a broken immigration system that was decimated by the last administration,” she added. “And we’ve been trying, and we are on the path doing it, to fix that broken system.”

An affluent Atlanta suburb is aiming to secede from the Peach State’s capital as violent crime is taking over the city’s streets.

Buckhead City Committee CEO Bill White said crime has torn the city streets apart and that the ‘defund the police’ movement has had a serious impact on public safety.

“We are really feeling like this is a war zone, and I don’t say that lightly, especially given what you experience in a war zone,” White said. “This is murder and mayhem… We are dealing with a mayor who voted to defund the police.

“It’s obvious that police officers do not want to come work for a mayor or a city that does not back them, so Buckhead wants to take things into its own hands,” he continued.

Statistics show rape is up 80% as of June 18, burglaries are up 26%, and robberies are up 8%.

Buckhead has been fighting to become independent of the state’s capital as surging crime has plagued the neighborhood, but thus far has been unsuccessful in getting the measure on an election ballot.

“We’re short 180 police officers, so what are we supposed to do?” White said. “They said this has never been done taking a part of a city out and making its own city from that, but we’re going to do it, and we’re going to absolutely love our police.”

“We’re going to pay them, we’re going to give them a take-home car, we’re going to welcome them,” he continued. “We’re going to honor them every day and make up for this dumbest move of the century, this ‘defund the police,’ and turn that on its heels and put the smack down on the crime here in Buckhead once and for all, and have a happy place to live.

White said he maintains his support of Gov. Brian Kemp, as he faces off against Democrat Stacey Abrams for the governorship in November.

“Thanks to Gov. Kemp, he’s come in to help save Buckhead, but he’s not the mayor of Atlanta, so that’s a temporary fix for what we’re endorsing,” White said. “But if Stacey Abrams was the governor, this wouldn’t be happening, so that’s why we’re voting for Brian Kemp for governor.”

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation arrested Meaonia Michelle Allen, 53, on Friday, after she confessed to killing her newborn child 30 years ago.

On December 8, 1993, a homeowner found “Baby Doe” in her yard in rural Choctaw County. The medical examiner determine that the baby boy was born alive but was killed after his throat was slashed.

Investigators carried out numerous interviews but with few leads, the case soon went cold. OSBI agents obtained and stored DNA evidence from the scene that could help them in the future.

In October 2020, an OSBI agent teamed up with the Cold Case Unit and criminologists at the OSBI Forensic Science Center and got a possible lead.

DNA evidence from the original crime scene was submitted to a firm that uses DNA technology and genetic genealogy to help law enforcement solve decades-old cases.

Upon reviewing the results, the OSBI team pursued leads and contacted Meaonia Michelle Allen.

On June 15, 2022, an OSBI agent met with Meaonia Michelle Allen and she agreed to submit DNA samples did confirm that she was Baby Doe’s biological mother.

“During a follow-up interview a few days later Allen admitted to cutting the baby’s throat shortly after his birth,” officials said in a statement.

“Allen, who was working for a daycare center at the time, did not tell anyone of her pregnancy or delivery in the almost 30 years of the child’s murder,” the statement continued.

Allen is being held without bond.

The White House promoted a press release Tuesday sent by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directing Americans, including minors, to a website informing them how to obtain abortions anywhere in the United States.

The HHS press release, titled “Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care” highlights the website AbortionFinder.org. The website provides information on “abortion funds and resources” as well as details on each state’s laws, the press release noted.

AbortionFinder.org, which requests the last date of a woman’s period and their age in the abortion provider search section, has separate search options for those aged “18 or older,” “17,” “16” and “15 or younger.” In clicking any of the under 18 options, a notice points out that “some states require people under 18 to involve a parent or guardian when getting an abortion.”

However, the website further directs minors to information on how they can obtain an abortion without “involving a parent or guardian.”

“If you need to avoid involving a parent or guardian, contact the If/When/How Judicial Bypass (JP) Helpline for information about getting a judicial bypass,” the website notes with a link to a subsequent website titled “Repro Legal Helpline.”

“Currently, 38 states have parental involvement laws that require young people to tell a parent, get permission from a parent, or both before they can have an abortion,” the helpline website points out. “But there are other options if you can’t or don’t want to involve your parents, or if your parents refuse to support your decision. You can get an order from a judge that lets you get an abortion without telling your parents. This process is called judicial bypass.”

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra criticized the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade Tuesday, saying it was “despicable” and promising that the agency has “been preparing” for the ruling. The HHS press release noted that the agency “is committed to providing you with accurate and up-to-date information about access to and coverage of reproductive health care and resources.”

In addition to referring readers to the AbortionFinder.org website, the HHS press release also included information on birth control, other preventative health services, and details options for those without health insurance.

Brian Laundrie’s handwritten confession, which was discovered in the Florida swamp where he killed himself, has been made public.

“I ended her life,” reads the note, which the FBI recovered from the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park on Oct. 20, 2021. “I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked. I was in shock.”

Laundrie said he killed Petito to stop her pain after she injured herself in a fall. He wrote: “From the moment I decided, took away her pain, I knew I couldn’t go on without her.”

“Please do not make life harder for my family,” he wrote, “They lost a son and a daughter. The most wonderful girl in the world. Gabby I’m sorry.”

Earlier in the note, Laundrie wrote: “I am sorry to my family. This is a shock to them as well [as] a terrible grief.”

On Oct. 20, 2021, Laundrie’s parents led authorities to the place where they believed their son had disappeared weeks earlier. Extensive searches had previously been hindered by floodwaters.

Christopher Laundrie came across a bag that was confirmed to have belonged to his son. A notebook collected by the FBI contained the confession.

The FBI revealed in January that investigators found Brian Laundrie’s confession in the notebook, which had been underwater for roughly five weeks.

Gabby Petito was murdered around Aug. 28. Her remains were discovered in the Bridger-Teton National Forest on Sept. 19. Investigators ruled her death a homicide by manual strangulation and blunt-force trauma to the head and neck.

After he killed her, Laundrie returned to his parent’s home in North Port, Florida, on Sept. 1, police said. According to the FBI, he sent fake text messages from Petito’s phone in a bid to cover up his crime.

On Sept. 13, Brian Laundrie snuck out into the swamp and that was the last time he was seen alive.

When his father voluntarily turned over the family’s guns to the FBI he said one might be missing. Investigators found a revolver near Brian Laundrie’s skeletal remains in the swamp.

Chris Pratt recently opened up about being the “Worst Chris” in Hollywood; or the internet’s opinion that he’s the lesser of the Chrises as compared to Evans, Hemsworth, and Pine.

It’s been a point of contention with social media users for some time with calls for Pratt to be cut from the MCU amid speculation about his religious beliefs and politics, as well as comments perceived by many to be disrespectful to his son Jack and ex-wife Anna Faris.

“You don’t ever wanna get caught complaining or anything, ’cause I have so many blessings. I consider everything a blessing truly in my life,” he said, adding, “Why are they coming after me?”

“Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn and “Jurassic World” director Colin Trevorrow came to his defense– with Gunn saying the commentary “absolutely infuriates” him and is based on “stuff that people have literally just made up about him,” Pratt said he believes it stems from publicly speaking about and thanking God during a speech at the MTV Movie & TV Awards — adding that he understands why talk of religion can be touchy.

“Religion has been oppressive as f— for a long time. I didn’t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I’m not a religious person. I think there’s a distinction between being religious — adhering to the customs created by man, oftentimes appropriating the awe reserved for who I believe is a very real God — and using it to control people, to take money from people, to abuse children, to steal land, to justify hatred,” he said. “Whatever it is. The evil that’s in the heart of every single man has glommed on to the back of religion and come along for the ride.”

“I said something like, ‘Find someone who looks at you the way my wife looks at me.’ And then I gave her some s— in the thing and said, ‘But I love you. I’m so thankful for my wife — she gave me a beautiful, healthy daughter.’ And then a bunch of articles came out and said, ‘That’s so cringeworthy. I can’t believe Chris Pratt would thank her for a healthy daughter when his first child was born prematurely. That’s such a dig at his ex-wife,’” he recalled of the backlash.

“And I’m like, That is f****d up. My son’s gonna read that one day. He’s nine. And it’s etched in digital stone,” he added. “It really f—ing bothered me, dude. I cried about it. I was like, I hate that these blessings in my life are — to the people close to me — a real burden.”

Scores of civilians were feared dead or wounded in a Russian missile strike Monday on a crowded shopping mall in Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk, Ukrainian.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the number of victims was “unimaginable,” saying there were more than 1,000 civilians inside the mall at the time of the attack.

At least 10 people were dead and more than 40 wounded, according to the Ukrainian regional governor.

Zelenskyy said the target presented “no threat to the Russian army” and had “no strategic value.” He accused Russia of sabotaging “people’s attempts to live a normal life, which make the occupiers so angry.”

The Russian missile strike echoes earlier attacks that caused large numbers of civilian casualties.

“Russia continues to take out its impotence on ordinary civilians. It is useless to hope for decency and humanity on its part,” Zelenskyy said.

Mayor Vitaliy Maletskiy said the attack “hit a very crowded area, which is 100% certain not to have any links to the armed forces.”

The attack came as Russia was mounting an all-out assault on the last Ukrainian stronghold in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province.

Russian forces stepped up longer-range strikes on the country after forcing Ukrainian troops out of the neighboring city of Sievierodonetsk in recent days.

Western leaders have pledged steadfast, continued support for Kyiv. NATO will agree to deliver further military support to Ukraine.

Meanwhile Russian forces fired cluster munitions on the city of Sloviansk including one that hit a residential neighborhood.

“Everything is now destroyed. We are the only people left living in this part of the building. There is no power,” said local resident Valentina Vitkovska, in tears as she spoke about the blast. “I can’t even call to tell others what had happened to us.”

Overall, Zelenskyy’s office said at least six civilians were killed and 31 others wounded as part of intense Russian shelling against various Ukrainian cities over the past 24 hours — including Kyiv and major cities in the country’s south and east, those numbers do not include the attack in Kremenchuk.

The father of murdered 3-year-old Nylo Lattimore attacked the child’s accused murderer during a pretrial hearing Thursday.

Surveillance footage captured the moment Tonio Hughes sprinted from the back of the courtroom and attacked the accused murderer Desean Brown. Brown is accused of fatally stabbing Nylo’s mother, Nyteisha Lattimore, in December 2020. He then allegedly threw Nylo into the Ohio River. The 3-year-old’s body has never been recovered despite lengthy searches.

Hughes ran towards Brown as he sat at the defense table just before the hearing officially started, as seen in the video. Two sheriff’s deputies quickly restrained Hughes and took him into custody, Hamilton County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kyla Woods said.

Judge Megan Shanahan found the father guilty of contempt and he was sentenced to seven days at the Hamilton County Justice Center for 7 days. “Everything inside him, just the pain and everything took over,” Hughes’ family friend Faith Burton said. “He did what I think any of us would do.”

Nyteisha reportedly miscarried the accused’s child prior to conceiving and giving birth to Nylo, according to an earlier report. “Mr. Brown had told Jameica Cobb that he was very upset and that since she killed their baby, he was going to do something to her baby Nylo,” Cincinnati police specialist Kimberly Kelley testified.

A Drag queen in Pennsylvania has been charged with 25 counts of child pornography, according to authorities.

Brice Patric Ryschon Williams was charged with 25 counts of child pornography and 18 counts of criminal use of a communications facility.

The bail is set at $100,000 and Williams is unable to post bail, according to the docket.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tipped off the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General’s Child Predator Section on May 18, 2020, reporting that 76 files containing child pornography were uploaded to a Dropbox file. The Dropbox account was linked to Anastasia Diamond, aka Williams’s stage persona.

Special agent Travis Nye obtained a search warrant for Williams’ home on June 22, 2022, and carried it out early Thursday morning.

According to a criminal complaint, “Brice denied having ever uploaded, downloaded, or sought child pornography,”

“In a preview of Brice’s Samsung Note 9 located in his bedroom at least twenty-five (25) video files of child pornography were located,” the complaint read.

In a Facebook profile promoting Williams shows, he encourages residents of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to take a survey to “help LGBTQ organizations develop programs that best serve our community.”

Video footage shared on Instagram from 2017 shows Williams dancing explicitly for children. In July, a local Pennsylvania news outlet reported that Williams would be working with an organization that provides a “safe space” for gay and transgender children of color.

On his personal Facebook account, Williams describes himself as a “genderqueer social worker and drag queen.”

The docket lists the case status as “awaiting a preliminary hearing.” The preliminary hearing is set for July 5, according to a public court summary.

An Oklahoma man is in jail after leading authorities on a chase that ended with him hiding in cow manure for several hours.

Wolf October Berry, 23, fled from officers who attempted to make a traffic stop for not wearing a seatbelt.

Officers pursued Berry down a county road before he crashed and continued fleeing on foot.

Authorities say Berry had been hiding in cow manure for several hours before he was finally located.

Berry is charged with eluding police, running a roadblock, possession of stolen property over $1,000, and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

A loaded 9MM semi-automatic pistol was found in Berry’s truck along with stolen property he acquired by burglarizing two nearby properties.

A Cherokee Nation Tribal Judge set Berry’s bond at $25,000.

Nowata County is located roughly 50 miles north of Tulsa, Oklahoma.