A skull fragment found by kayakers along the muddy banks of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota">Minnesota River</a> turned out to be from a man who lived 8,000 years ago and may have been killed by a blow to the head, according to an FBI forensic expert.
The skull fragment was exposed last September because a drought had caused the river&#8217;s water level to recede, according to <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/05/19/part-of-skull-found-along-minnesota-river-belongs-to-man-from-8000-years-ago">Minnesota Public Radio</a>. The two kayakers turned it over to the Renville County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, which first passed it along to the local medical examiner, then to the FBI, thinking it could be remains of a missing person. What they learned next stunned the small southern Minnesota community some 110 miles west of Minneapolis.
“That it was human, it was that of a young man, and, most surprisingly, that it was, they thought, about 8,000 years old,&#8221; Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable told MPR. &#8220;It was a complete shock to us that that bone was that old.”
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Two kayakers on the Minnesota River happened upon a fragment of a human skull last year. 
Now, an FBI forensic anthropologist estimates the bone belonged to a man who lived nearly 8,000 years ago. 
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A report from the FBI determined that the skull had a depression likely caused by a severe head wound   that was “perhaps suggestive of the cause of death.” Hable characterized the wound as &#8220;blunt force trauma.&#8221;
Kathleen Blue, a professor of anthropology at Minnesota State University, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/minnesota-human-skull.html">The New York Times</a> the man likely would have eaten a diet of plants, deer, fish, turtles, and freshwater mussels.
“There’s probably not that many people at that time wandering around Minnesota 8,000 years ago, because, like I said, the glaciers have only retreated a few thousands years before that,” Blue said. “That period, we don’t know much about it.”
Blue speculated that the skull might have drifted in the river for thousands of years or come loose from a  burial site near the river.
Minnesota Indians blasted the local sheriff&#8217;s department for sharing a photo of the skull online, claiming it was disrespectful to their ancestors.
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council Cultural Resources Specialist Dylan Goetsch complained that Minnesota’s tribal communities only learned of the discovery after seeing the sheriff’s Facebook post, which he called “unacceptable and offensive.”
Hable said his agency will turn the remains over to Upper Sioux Community tribal officials.
“We had no idea but we were alerted to the fact that that Facebook post was offensive to one or more people and so we have since taken that post down,&#8221; Hable said. &#8220;We didn’t mean for it to be offensive whatsoever.”

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Skull Discovered By Kayakers Turns Into 8,000-Year-Old Mystery

Kayakers Found A Skull Along The Minnesota River That Turned Out To Be 8,000 Years Old

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A rare Mercedes-Benz from the 1950s with links to a tragic racing incident fetched a staggering $143 million at auction earlier this month, making it the most expensive car ever sold, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/sothebys-mercedes-v4-2">Sotheby&#8217;s announced</a>.
The 1955 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/sothebys-mercedes-v4-2">Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut</a>, one of only two in the world, was sold to a private collector who was not identified at an invitation-only auction at the MercedesBenz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The car had been in the possession of the German automaker since it rolled off the assembly line. The car was named after its creator and chief engineer, Rudolf Uhlenhaut.
&#8220;The private buyer has agreed that the 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe will remain accessible for public display on special occasions, while the second original 300 SLR Coupe remains in company ownership and will continue to be displayed at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart,&#8221; Sotheby&#8217;s said.
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Sold: The world&#39;s most expensive car.
A 1955 Mercedes-Benz, one of only two of its kind, was auctioned off earlier this month for a whopping 135 million euros ($143 million), making it the most expensive car ever sold, RM Sotheby&#39;s says<a href="https://t.co/8CfzYCDpbI">https://t.co/8CfzYCDpbI</a>
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The price is more than double the prior record of $70 million <a tabindex="0" href="https://www.foxnews.com/auto/classic-1963-ferrari-250-gto-sold-for-record-70-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}">paid for a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO</a> in a private sale in 2018 and triple the previous auction record for a vintage car, a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for $48 million in 2018.
According to an AFP ranking of artworks sold at auction in recent years, the Mercedes is the sixth or seventh most expensive item ever auctioned, with the all-time record being held by Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8220;Salvator Mundi,&#8221; which sold in November 2017 for $450.3 million to a collector believed to be Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, with its DeLorean-style butterfly doors, was inspired by the W196 R Grand Prix race car, which won Formula 1 world championships in 1954 and 1955, according to Sotheby&#8217;s. But in June of 1955, at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, a crash of one of its 300 SLR vehicles killed French driver Pierre Levegh and 83 spectators and ended production of the car.
The disaster remains the deadliest in the history of the sport and came after the driver of an Austin-Healey swerved to avoid rear-ending a Jaguar that had braked for a pit stop. French driver Pierre Levegh, driving the 300 SLR, then rear-ended the Austin-Healey at full speed. The Mercedes went airborne at 125 mph, jumped a berm and landed in a spectator area where it broke apart, raining debris on the crowd.
The tragedy prompted Mercedes-Benz to withdraw from the sport of racing until 1989.
RM Sotheby&#8217;s said the proceeds from the auction will be used to establish a worldwide Mercedes-Benz Fund to support environmental research. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/auto/mercedes-benz-sold-record-million">Fox News&#8217; automotive expert Gary Gastelu</a>, citing sources, said the buyer is &#8220;a well-known figure from Britain&#8217;s automotive industry and a long-standing collector of specialist cars.&#8221;

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You Won’t Believe What This Vintage, Tragedy-Linked Mercedes Just sold For

Vintage Mercedes Benz Fetches Record $143M at auction

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As President Joe Biden was landing in South Korea early Friday, two members of the Secret Service were being sent home after a booze-fueled incident that involved local police, according to a report.
The employees, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-service-employees-home-south-korea-ahead-bidens/story?id=84850456">described by ABC News</a> as an agent and an armed physical security specialist, went bar-hopping after dinner and the agent wound up in a confrontation with a taxi driver, ABC News reported.
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&#8220;The Secret Service is aware of an off-duty incident involving two employees which may constitute potential policy violations,&#8221; agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. &#8220;The individuals will be immediately returned back to their post of duty and placed on administrative leave. There was no impact to the upcoming trip. We have very strict protocols and policies for all employees and we hold ourselves to the highest professional standards. Given this is an active administrative personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further.&#8221;
Biden landed early Friday in Pyeongtaek for his first presidential visit to Asia, beginning a five-day tour aimed at bolstering the White House&#8217;s economic commitment to the region. Biden’s first remarks in South Korea called for final passage of a bill  meant to boost U.S. competitiveness against China that House and Senate negotiators are currently negotiating.
The three-day visit also comes as North Korea has become increasingly belligerent, testing missiles and reportedly refusing to talk with the Biden administration. North Korea conducted two ICBM tests earlier this year and tunneling activity indicates preparation for a nuclear test, according to a <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/north-korea-could-launch-a-missile-or-nuclear-test-to-overshadow-bidens-first-asia-trip/ar-AAXvrW8?ocid=uxbndlbing">report from CNBC</a>.
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The agent involved in the argument with the taxi driver was slated to be interviewed by local police before returning to the U.S.
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The Secret Service has been involved in other embarrassing and high-profile scandals over the past decade. In a 2012 incident, several were investigated for drinking and soliciting prostitutes while doing advance work for a trip by then-President Barack Obama to Cartagena, Colombia.
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Six agents resigned or retired and four had their security clearances revoked, according to a 2013 report by the Homeland Security Department inspector general.
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In another incident in 2015, two agents were &#8216;likely&#8217; impaired by alcohol when they drove a government vehicle through a secure White House area, the inspector general <a class="class" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-agents-were-likely-impaired-alcohol-watchdog-n358701" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">found</a>.
The Secret Service, which provides protection to 33 members of President Biden&#8217;s administration and family, as well as former presidents and members of their families, has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/18/secret-service-protection-biden-trump/9707892002/?gnt-cfr=1">reportedly been plagued</a> by staffing and training problems in recent years.
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Two From Secret Service Sent Home After Incident In South Korea Just As Biden Arrives

2 From Secret Service Sent Home After Incident In South Korea Just As Biden Arrives

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When you&#8217;re done laughing at the latest video from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIpwPuJsrboNnf200oV8cWQ">YouTube star Fleccas</a>, take a moment to despair for your nation&#8217;s future.
Austen Fletcher, the bearded inquisitor behind the popular channel Fleccas Talks, dispatched TikTok star and man-on-the-street correspondent <a href="https://m.tiktok.com/h5/share/usr/6884436555651875845.html?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowj0zQYsSPAJVnyrfJPuGu9EvNGurABSN49o3ZiGPY6GBDOm8GjIZhiwuFiToUmhWEGgA%3D&amp;checksum=bba77361dee3b9463716850cf77e9e7057c7e3b4bf37d7b2ea8db0e1a92cd01c&amp;enable_clips=1&amp;language=en&amp;sec_uid=MS4wLjABAAAAq_4zdB42UqqnuDd1tS8c9royXFDyjw0SkoCpilpFbdxxkCrasI-uiwKJx9DCXHoi&amp;sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAq_4zdB42UqqnuDd1tS8c9royXFDyjw0SkoCpilpFbdxxkCrasI-uiwKJx9DCXHoi&amp;share_app_id=1233&amp;share_author_id=6884436555651875845&amp;share_link_id=0D190CAC-BD11-46A1-AA5E-D38247A6D980&amp;tt_from=sms&amp;u_code=df3977hdb0082e&amp;user_id=6884436555651875845&amp;utm_campaign=client_share&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_source=sms">Justin Awad</a> to New York City this week to test the knowledge of random folks with some trivia questions. You know, trivia. Like, how many eggs are in a dozen? How many years in a decade? Who is the vice president?
Well, best to just watch:
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In the latest video, Awad picked passersby and good-naturedly asked them questions, studiously avoiding tricky subjects, like string theory or anything involving dark matter.
&#8220;Do you know when the U.S. was founded?&#8221; he asks one woman.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she replies. &#8220;Probably like, 1901?&#8221;
To another woman, Awad poses an even thornier query.
&#8220;How many states make up the United States?&#8221; he asks.
&#8220;How many states make &#8211; Dude! I know this,&#8221; she replies.
&#8220;You know this,&#8221; Awad agrees.
&#8220;Yes I do,&#8221; she says. &#8220;That&#8217;s crazy!&#8221;
But it becomes apparent that she does not. And it keeps getting worse.
“Very scary stuff,” Fletcher later observed.
The video quickly went viral Thursday on both YouTube and Instagram.
Fletcher, who has 572,00 YouTube subscribers, built up his following by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_UCMHPYvdk">going to protests</a> and asking leftists relatively straightforward questions and getting answers ranging from hilarious to terrifying. He now has a weekly podcast, which drops on Fridays.
In 2020, Fletcher made more serious news when he caught up with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to ask him about the riots that were going on at the time in Portland, Oregon. Nadler declared that the black-clad anarchists were “a myth.”

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yankees-general-manager-says-houston-astros-cheating-scandal-reason-for-world-series-drought">New York Yankees</a>&#8216; minor league prospect was allegedly stealing more than just bases, and his path to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mlb">big leagues</a> has just become a lot tougher.
Jake Sanford, the team&#8217;s third-round draft pick in 2019 and a budding star with good power, was allegedly stealing equipment including bats and gloves from his teammates&#8217; lockers and selling them online, according to <a href="https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/05/yankees-cut-3rd-round-prospect-who-allegedly-stole-equipment-from-teammates-and-tried-to-sell-it.html">NJ.com</a>. When the club learned of the accusations, it launched an investigation that led to Sanford getting his walking papers a week ago.
“He was scamming other players,” a source told the outlet.
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&mdash; Brendan Kuty (@BrendanKutyNJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrendanKutyNJ/status/1527015950872084480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Sanford, who had been playing minor league ball for the club&#8217;s Florida Complex League team, allegedly pestered his teammates for their equipment to sell online, but also just stole it from their lockers at times, the source said.
The 24-year-old outfielder, who played college baseball at Western Kentucky University, was signed for almost $600,000 after being drafted. Last season, the lefty batted .285 with 16 homers and 61 RBI in the low minor leagues.
Sanford&#8217;s college coach was John Pawlowski, who also coached former Yankee Brett Gardner at the College of Charleston. Coaches and scouts compared Sanford’s skills to Gardner&#8217;s.
“If this one can do what Gardy did, then we’ve had a hell of a Draft on its own,” Yankees director of scouting Damon <a href="https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/yankees-2019-draft-day-2-coverage" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Oppenheimer told MLB.com at the time</a>. “He really reminds us of [former Rockies All-Star] Brad Hawpe. He’s got huge power; it’s easy, he drives the ball the other way. The combination of the power and the speed he has, being a guy who is kind of young and just starting at this thing, it made him real attractive to us.”
Sanford signed with the Ottawa Titans of the Frontier League on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
People on social media claimed they were also victimized by Sanford. Some accused him of taking their money for autographed equipment that he never delivered.
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The Yankees have released 2019 3rd Round Pick Jake Sanford. 
Sanford was a Top 30 Prospect as recently as last season and slashed .285/.356/.467 across 101 games in Tampa and Hudson Valley last season. 
He was strangely left off a roster last month and was released Thursday.
&mdash; Yankees Top Prospect Watch (@NYY_Prospects) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYY_Prospects/status/1525348497733701632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Shane Ronan, of Tampa, claimed he bid $75 on Twitter for a pair of Sanford-signed baseball gloves, but Sanford never showed up to deliver them at an agreed-upon meeting place.
“Then he ghosted me,” Ronan said. “He got a bit nasty with me about it.”
Matt Shea said in a Facebook memorabilia group that he also was a victim, according to NJ.com.
“Anyone wanna hear how I got scammed out of 600 [dollars] by Jake Sanford of the Yankees?” Shea wrote on May 9. “If he doesn’t pay up by tonight it will be over 2.5 months and that’s time to spill the beans and get this guy to be the biggest scum in milb history.”

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New York Yankees’ Minor Leaguer Cut For Allegedly Stealing More Than Bases

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A Russian politician who opposed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war">invasion of Ukraine</a> has reportedly been nabbed at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis">U.S.-Mexico border</a>.
Viktor Kamenshchikov, who served as a deputy in the Vladivostok Duma, resigned from the Communist Party on February 27, just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine. Vladivostok is a large port city in eastern Russia. Its duma is equivalent to a city council.
&#8220;I do not agree with the position of the party leadership,&#8221; Kamenshchikov told Russian newspaper Kommersant at the time, specifically alluding to &#8220;military operations in Ukraine and the use of Russian troops on the territory of a neighboring state.
&#8220;I am against war in principle,&#8221; he added.
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Vladivostok city councillor Viktor Kamenshchikov resigned from the Communist Party on February 28 in protest against the invasion. Now he has apparently been arrested while trying to cross the Mexico-US border. He reportedly has a child with US citizenship due to birth. <a href="https://t.co/LX6payUgkX">https://t.co/LX6payUgkX</a>
&mdash; X Soviet 🇺🇦 (@XSovietNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/XSovietNews/status/1527208347769896962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It was not known where along the U.S. border Kamenshchikov was being detained or if he was seeking asylum. Russian state news service RIA Novosti reported that a source said Kamenshchikov had been arrested, although &#8220;it is not yet known for what exactly, presumably for an illegal border crossing.&#8221;
Kamenshchikov&#8217;s opposition put him at risk of arrest in Russia, where spreading what is determined to be “fake” information about the military can mean up to 15 years in prison. Kamenshchikov said in an interview that people&#8217;s failure to oppose the war, “means that they are for it” and warned Russia will have to pay for “5,10, 20 years for all the horror that is happening today.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t call me a hero because I defiantly left the party,&#8221; he said.
In a March 5 interview with <a href="https://www.sibreal.org">sibreal.org</a>, he accused the government of tricking deputies into voting for a military invasion. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LPDR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky knew about Vladimir Putin&#8217;s war plans in advance, he said.
Anatoly Dolgachev, the first secretary of the Communist Party&#8217;s Primorsky regional branch, reportedly called fleeing to the United States, whose &#8220;imperialist policies&#8221; the party opposes, is the worst thing a party member can do.
Anti-war protests in Russia initially began in city squares, but demonstrators were rounded up and arrested. Since then, opposition has become more stealthy, with graffiti, sabotage of the railways of both Russia and Belarus and the firebombing of recruitment centers, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/protests-russia-take-interesting-twists">according to Fox News</a>. One shadowy group called &#8220;Stop the Wagons&#8221; posted on social media a map of railway targets for blocking military supplies bound Ukraine.
The number of illegal border crossers encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on the Mexican border reached an all-time high in April, according to government <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-april-2022-monthly-operational-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a>. There were 234,088 encounters in total last month, an increase of 5.4% from March, CBP data shows.

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Russian Official Nabbed At U.S.-Mexico Border: Report

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A 911 dispatcher accused of shouting at and hanging up on a worker who was hiding at the Buffalo supermarket as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report">Saturday&#8217;s racially motivated mass shooting</a> took place has been put on administrative leave and faces firing, officials said.
The Erie County dispatcher, who was not identified, shouted at the female employee and demanded to know why she was &#8220;whispering,&#8221; before hanging up, the worker told <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/tops-worker-says-911-dispatcher-hung-up-on-her-during-shooting-the-dispatcher-is-now/article_81722c50-d6b6-11ec-9b8e-978e1bbde2e4.html">The Buffalo News</a>. The call was placed as an 18-year old suspect was spraying the Tops Friendly Market with gunfire in a horrific attack that left 10 dead and three wounded.
&#8220;She was yelling at me, saying, &#8216;Why are you whispering? You don&#8217;t have to whisper,'&#8221; the employee, identified as Latisha, an assistant office manager at the market, told the newspaper. &#8220;And I was telling her, &#8216;Ma&#8217;am, he&#8217;s still in the store. He&#8217;s shooting. I&#8217;m scared for my life. I don&#8217;t want him to hear me. Can you please send help?&#8217; She got mad at me, hung up in my face.&#8221;
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The dispatcher allegedly shouted at a whispering supermarket employee who called 911 and hung up on her. <a href="https://t.co/aDpOuq2ukQ">https://t.co/aDpOuq2ukQ</a>
&mdash; 6 News WOWT (@WOWT6News) <a href="https://twitter.com/WOWT6News/status/1527243167170437120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Latisha told the paper she had to phone her boyfriend and have him to call 911 to report the shooting.  It is not yet clear who hung up first.
&#8220;I felt that lady left me to die yesterday,&#8221; Latisha told The Buffalo News.
&#8220;Termination will be sought”  at a disciplinary hearing set for May 30, Peter Anderson, a spokesperson for Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told Fox News Digital.
Authorities said the shooter arrived at the market around 2:30 p.m. ET wearing tactical gear and armed with a rifle. He shot four people outside the grocery, three fatally, before entering. Once inside, the shooter was confronted by security guard and former Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, 55, who was shot dead trying to stop the gunman. The shooter shot eight more people inside the store, six of whom died, authorities said. Police responded and took the suspect into custody.
The Daily Wire is not naming in keeping with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety.
He allegedly live-streamed the murder spree on Twitch after driving some three-and-a-half hours from Broome County, New York, to the market because it is frequented by African Americans.
Authorities suspect the shooting was racially motivated, in part because the suspect is white and 11 of his 13 victims are black. The barrel of the suspect’s gun bore “the N-word” spelled out in white paint, along with the numeral 14, according to The Buffalo News. A government official told the outlet the number refers to a 14-word statement that is popular with white supremacists.
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“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white people,” is the alleged statement, and is originally attributed to David Lane, onetime leader of a white supremacist terror group known as The Order, the official said.
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Buffalo 911 Dispatcher Accused of Hanging Up On Worker Hiding During Mass Shooting Faces Firing

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Texas Republican <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-crenshaw">Dan Crenshaw</a> struck back at Fox News&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson">Tucker Carlson</a>, calling the cable news host who branded him &#8220;Eyepatch McCain&#8221; a &#8220;gross human being.&#8221;
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost his right eye while serving in Afghanistan and wears a patch over it, got his dig in while actually defending Carlson. While many on the left are blaming the host for Saturday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report">racially charged shooting</a> that let left 10 dead at a Buffalo, New York, market, Crenshaw said the white supremacist gunman bears all the blame for his actions.
“Like, I hate Tucker Carlson. I despise him. But he didn’t cause this, right?” Crenshaw told <a href="https://thehill.com/news/house/3493001-republicans-dismiss-white-supremacy-charge-but-show-unease-about-rhetoric/">The Hill</a>. “Like, I think he’s a gross human being. Doesn’t mean that his rhetoric caused it. This was caused by a legitimately crazy person.”
If that sounds like a tepid defense, recall that Carlson mocked Crenshaw on his show Monday night, likening him to late Republican Sen. John McCain, who Carlson considered a neoconservative who supported U.S. intervention around the world. Crenshaw had spoken earlier on Fox News in support of a $40 billion military and humanitarian aid package to Ukraine, and rejected the idea that it was at cross purposes with fixing the baby formula shortage plaguing the U.S.
&#8220;Do you know how much baby formula $40 billion can buy? None,&#8221; Crenshaw told Fox News guest host and former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy.
Carlson, who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-tells-daily-wire-why-he-decided-to-pose-as-liberal-elite-snob">adamant in his opposition to the Ukraine aid package</a>, later voiced his disagreement &#8211; and coined a new nickname for Crenshaw.
&#8220;The more I think about it, it takes a lot of gall for eyepatch McCain to attack moms who are worried about baby formula as pro-Russia,&#8221; Carlson later told guest Tulsi Gabbard.
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TUCKER: Dan Crenshaw is “Eyepatch McCain”<a href="https://t.co/hh979Zm29J">pic.twitter.com/hh979Zm29J</a>
&mdash; Election Wizard 🇺🇸 (@ElectionWiz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1526360439524925440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Crenshaw initially took Carlson&#8217;s insult in stride.
“You hurl juvenile insults when you know you’ve lost the debate&#8230;I stand by every word I said,&#8221; Crenshaw said.
Carlson fans embraced the new moniker with <a href="https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1526393086707761152?s=20&amp;t=NLbnhJxujkOGWiOOzWJjPQ">memes</a> and tweets, while many others in the media and on both sides of the political spectrum condemned the remark.
&#8220;The guy gave an eye in service to our country,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/DrBertha_PhD/status/1526363862349582338?s=20&amp;t=NLbnhJxujkOGWiOOzWJjPQ">tweeted @Dr.Bertha_PhD</a>. &#8220;Love you, Tucker, but this was out of line. Do better (even if you’re right).&#8221;
Crenshaw was mocked in 2018 by &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8217;s&#8221; Pete Davidson, who said he looked like a &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukbtA3df8BI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hitman in a porno movie</a>.&#8221;
“I’m sorry,&#8221; Davidson continued as the studio audience laughed. &#8220;I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.&#8221;
Davidson later apologized.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>&#8216;s cars don&#8217;t fume, but he sure does.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> chief blasted Wall Street&#8217;s &#8220;phony social justice warriors&#8221; Wednesday after his electric car company was kicked off a stock index for companies deemed environmentally and socially conscious.
The S&amp;P 500 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/esg-the-invisible-fist-of-the-economy">ESG</a> index is part of the &#8220;environmental, social, and governance&#8221; movement among global investors. It dropped Tesla just as Musk, increasingly at odds with leftists, declared he intends to vote Republican going forward.
&#8220;ESG is a scam,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526958110023245829?s=20&amp;t=fBLYW69QQxx2-Cb3FJ26wg">Musk tweeted</a>. &#8220;It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.&#8221;
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Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social &amp; governance (ESG) by S&amp;P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list!
ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526958110023245829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk noted that oil giant Exxon is lauded by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/esg-woke-capitalism">ESG crowd</a>, while his own company claims to be reducing the world&#8217;s dependence on fossil fuels.
&#8220;Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social &amp; governance (ESG) by S&amp;P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list!&#8221; Musk added.
The S&amp;P wrote in a <a href="https://www.indexologyblog.com/2022/05/17/the-rebalancing-act-of-the-sp-500-esg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">blog post</a> the move was made because of complaints about working conditions at Tesla’s California factory and the company&#8217;s inadequate response to an investigation relating to crashes linked to its autopilot feature.
“While Tesla may be playing its part in taking fuel-powered cars off the road, it has fallen behind its peers when examined through a wider ESG lens,” S&amp;P Down Jones ESG chief Margaret Dorn wrote.
Also axed from the list were Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway, pharmaceutical company Johnson &amp; Johnson and Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook.
Musk might have expected the demotion, after writing earlier this month that ESG grades are unfair.
“Stop the outrageous false ESG assessments, where Tesla gets a bad grade, but an oil company can get a good grade,” Musk tweeted. “Total gaming of the system!”
ESG, championed by investment giant BlackRock&#8217;s CEO Larry Fink, seeks to impose woke social and environmental values on the global market by scoring companies based on how compliant they are.
“You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock, we’re forcing behaviors,” Fink said in 2017.
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&quot;ESG is just a hate factory. It’s a factory for naming enemies, and we should not be allowing them to do that. When you think ESG, you should be thinking Chinese Communist Party.&quot;&#8211;Peter Thiel
&mdash; Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) <a href="https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1512213405511286784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dorn offered hope to Musk that his company could get back into the good graces of the social justice index.
&#8220;So, while Tesla and others may not have been included in the index this year, the beauty of the annual rebalance is that they will once again have an opportunity to be reviewed for inclusion in years to come,&#8221; she wrote.

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Charges were dropped against a man caught on a terrifying video two years ago viciously beating a 75-year-old Army veteran in the Detroit nursing home where they both lived.
The shocking video from May 15, 2020, showing Jaden Hayden pummeling Norman Bledsoe in the Westwood Nursing Center, went viral. Although Bledsoe <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/victim-in-detroit-nursing-home-assault-has-died-family-says">died weeks later</a>, his death was not classified as a homicide. Charges were <a href="https://michigannewstime.com/charges-of-assault-on-a-nursing-home-were-dropped-2/16911/">reportedly dropped</a> because Hayden is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
“He shouldn’t be in jail,” Hayden&#8217;s father, Marty Hayden, told WXYZ, Detroit&#8217;s ABC television affiliate. “So the system will let him down again. He will not be rehabilitated.&#8221;
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Hayden recorded the beating with his own cell phone, according to police. The video shows Bledsoe covered in blood as he lies helpless on the bed and being pummeled by Hayden, who repeatedly yells, &#8220;Get the f*** off my bed!&#8221;
Nursing home staff raced in to help Bledsoe, Hayden said had fallen out of his bed, police later said. Hayden was arrested a week later, after police received several calls from citizens who saw the video on social media. Hayden, who police said had &#8220;set up his cell phone&#8221; in the room, had posted videos of the attack on social media. He was also accused of stealing Bledsoe&#8217;s credit cards.
Joely Pointer an employee at the nursing home, <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/01/11/man-charged-with-beating-detroit-nursing-home-resident-headed-to-trial/">said in January, 2021</a>, that Bledsoe was left dazed after the attack, which left him with several broken ribs, fingers, and a broken jaw.
“He had a very large contusion to his head,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There was blood. He was very confused and he could not give me a statement as to what happened.”
The elder Hayden blames social workers for putting his mentally ill son in a nursing home. Jaden Hayden, who had a history of violent behavior, was living in a group home in May of 2020, when he told his father he was &#8220;hearing voices,&#8221; according to his father. He was sent to University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, where he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and inexplicably sent to the nursing home to recover.
Pointer told <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/01/11/man-charged-with-beating-detroit-nursing-home-resident-headed-to-trial/">ClickOnDetroit.com</a> last year that the nursing home had just opened a COVID unit, and that&#8217;s why it had taken in Hayden.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, like former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and governors in New Jersey and Pennsylvania sent COVID patients to nursing homes during the early stages of the pandemic. The policy has been blamed for deadly infections of elderly people in those states.
Hayden is now confined in a Kalamazoo psychiatric hospital.
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One Twitter executive should be polishing his resume today, after incoming boss <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> caught Project Veritas&#8217;s latest undercover video, which shows the purported employee ridiculing the billionaire for having Asperger&#8217;s and believing in free speech.
The employee, identified by Project Veritas as Lead Client Partner Alex Martinez, mocks the billionaire, admits the social media platform censors users, and in an ironic twist, says he knows the undercover journalism organization is out to record Twitter employees and is being extra cautious.
&#8220;He has Asperger&#8217;s,&#8221; Martinez says on the recording, which appears to have been made at a bar or restaurant. &#8220;So he&#8217;s &#8216;special.'&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;You&#8217;re &#8230; special needs. You&#8217;re literally special needs,&#8221; Martinez said.
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Twitter executive calling Elon Musk mentally handicapped, &quot;special&quot; and saying he has &quot;aspergers.&quot;
This Twitter exec goes on to say that Twitter is &quot;not here to give people free speech&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> is going to want to see this one too…<a href="https://t.co/dQZamaLiC8">pic.twitter.com/dQZamaLiC8</a>
&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1526720931581894656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk, who revealed he has Asperger&#8217;s in an <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57045770#:~:text=Tech%20entrepreneur%20Elon%20Musk%20has%20revealed%20he%20has,programme%20-%20to%20loud%20cheers%20from%20the%20audience.">appearance on &#8220;Saturday Night Live</a>&#8221; last year, responded on Twitter, and did not seem pleased.
&#8220;Twitter exec trashing free speech &amp; mocking people with Asperger’s,&#8221; he wrote, with a frown emoji.
Musk, whose $44 billion bid for Twitter is on hold as he demands an audit to determine how many of the platform&#8217;s active daily users are actually bots or spam accounts, has said he wants to take Twitter private to ensure that it functions as a &#8220;town square&#8221; for free speech. Nothing Martinez says on the undercover video is likely to convince Musk Twitter is not silencing people over their beliefs.
&#8220;The rest of us who have been here believe in something that&#8217;s good for the planet and not just to give people free speech,&#8221; Martinez says. &#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be hard for him to be like, &#8216;Uh, because people should be able to make their own decisions. It&#8217;s like people don&#8217;t know how to make a rational decision if you don&#8217;t put out correct things that are supposed to be out in the public.&#8221;
Martinez goes on to say Twitter must censor people to be fair.
&#8220;As an advertiser, as my business what I do every day and why I go out is like, we want [Twitter] to be as fair and transparent and accurate as possible and if that means there&#8217;s a level of censorship to make it correct, quote unquote. Again, and what does correct mean? I guess like, it just kind of goes into the idea of, like, what is correct?&#8221; he rambles.
The undercover reporter then reads to him from a company warning, pretending to be unfamiliar with his own organization.
&#8220;It says &#8216;groups like &#8220;Project Ve-ree-tas&#8217; are active right now,'&#8221; he says. &#8220;What the f*** is that?&#8221;
Martinez knows who Project Veritas is.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like some group that is trying to just out the employees,&#8221; Martinez replies. &#8220;Like, they&#8217;re trying to go out on dates with them, like this. And record them and then go sell it to The New York Times and say, &#8216;This is what the Twitter employee just said.'&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re lucky you just met me organically, because otherwise, I would be questioning everything about you,&#8221; he adds.
The newest video followed one <a tabindex="0" href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1526343370146480128" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-t="{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}">a day earlier</a> showing Twitter senior engineer identified as Siru Murugesan saying Twitter &#8220;does not believe in free speech.&#8221;
&#8220;Ideologically, it does not make sense, like, because we&#8217;re actually censoring the right and not the Left,&#8221; Murugesan tells an undercover Project Veritas journalist. &#8220;So everyone on the right will be like, ‘Bro, it’s okay to say it, just gotta tolerate it.&#8217; The left will be like, ‘No, I’m not gonna tolerate it. I need it censored or else I&#8217;m not gonna be on the platform.'&#8221;

Twitter Exec Mocks ‘Aspergers’ Musk In Secret Project Veritas Video: Report

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">Biological males</a> cannot take part in competitive swimming without ruining the sport, an international organization of coaches declared in a lengthy <a href="https://www.wscacoach.org/advocacy/wsca-position-statement-on-transgender-swimming">report</a> issued this week.
The declaration from the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) follows University of Pennsylvania women’s swimmer and biological male <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lia-thomas">Lia Thomas</a> winning an NCAA championship in March, just one year after competing as a male. The organization said allowing transgender athletes to compete dooms the sport’s competitive balance.
“For the sport of swimming, the inclusion of transgender people on the grounds of fairness cannot co-exist in the current competitive model,” read the statement, reported by <a href="https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/wsca-releases-position-on-transgender-swimming-inclusion-fairness-cannot-coexist-in-current-model/">Swimming World magazine</a>. “Swimming should choose to offer competition in which the female category is protected for reasons of competitive fairness.”
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In March, Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title after finishing first in the women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle. Some of Thomas’s teammates and competitors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-not-equality-olympians-coaches-championship-swimmers-demand-ncaa-protect-our-women-athletes">complained publicly and privately</a> that it was not fair for them to have to compete against the almost <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/us/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-ivy-league/index.html">6-foot, 4-inch</a> biological male.
The group said it is committed to finding a way to include transgender swimmers in competition, possibly by forming a “trans division.” But it was adamant that biological males should not race against women.
“The inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned male at birth (whether with or without the involvement of testosterone suppression),” the statement read. “This is the primary factor to be considered in an endeavor to balance fairness with inclusion.”
Thomas&#8217;s swimming pool exploits this year prompted lawmakers in several states to take steps to exclude biological males from participating in women&#8217;s sports. In addition, Republicans in the House and Senate sought last month to prohibit schools that receive federal funds from allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports.
“Why would we send federal funds to schools that permit an unlevel playing field by allowing biological males to compete against girls and women?” asked Republican Study Committee Executive Committee Member Jeff Duncan (R-SC). “Female athletes have a legally guaranteed right to compete with other women on a level playing field, and this must be protected for the future of women’s sports.”
The issue of gender fluidity is the subject of an upcoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com">Daily Wire</a> documentary, &#8220;What is a Woman,&#8221;  starring <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-why-the-left-cant-answer-the-question">Matt Walsh</a>. View the trailer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZPMS6cSYGQ&amp;t=41s">here</a>.

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