CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday over last week&#8217;s shooting of an illegal immigrant by ICE officers in New York City — one of two such shootings since Mullin took over the department — and Mullin answered with numbers of his own.
Mullin, who succeeded Kristi Noem as secretary in March, argued that the figures deserving attention were the hundreds of illegal immigrants in New York wanted for or convicted of murder — and the American lives he said were lost because those suspects were in the country at all.
The Homeland Security chief told Tapper that Oscar Belgal had an impressive rap sheet for someone who had only been in the country for three years, and in addition to being in the United States illegally, he was credibly linked to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-agent-shoots-suspected-migrant-gang-member-in-new-york-city">Trinitarios street gang</a>. Mullin explained that often, when ICE went to apprehend someone, &#8220;fight or flight&#8221; instincts kicked in.
&#8220;When we&#8217;re approaching a vehicle, that individual knows that they&#8217;re going to jail,&#8221; Mullin explained. &#8220;Now, you want to talk about the two individuals that have been shot since I&#8217;ve been the secretary, let&#8217;s talk about the 258 illegals that are in New York City right now that are wanted for murder. Let&#8217;s talk about the 258 that are currently in state prison that killed individuals, that were illegals that we got detainers on.&#8221;
&#8220;All 258 of those individuals took an American life,&#8221; he added. &#8220;All 258 of those deaths were 100% preventable because those illegals shouldn&#8217;t be here. If people are really concerned about the tactics that are being used, how about the states cooperate with us? These individuals that I&#8217;ve talked about have detainers on them. Oscar had a detainer on him.&#8221;
Mullin also referenced two illegals who had been implicated in the stabbing of off-duty NYPD Detective Jose Mercedes, saying that one of the two had also had an ICE detainer.
&#8220;That means they were locked up before, we asked the state, we asked the city to give them to us, and they released them back on the streets,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If anybody should be outraged, it should [be] the public to the sanctuary states and sanctuary politicians that continue to release these murderers and thugs back to the streets and put the public in danger.&#8221;

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James Talarico&#8217;s Senate campaign is officially denying rumors that his two-week absence from the public eye was the result of a mental health crisis.  “This is a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory. Last week James Talarico was home in Austin, Texas, recovering from the flu,” campaign spokesman JT Ennis said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
Later on Sunday, the Lindner Center of Hope — where it was claimed that Talarico sought treatment — also released a <a href="https://x.com/lindnerctrhope/status/2109430626562785517">statement</a> denying that he&#8217;d ever been a patient there.
&#8220;Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope,&#8221; the statement read.
Ennis and the mental health facility were both responding to a social media post on Sunday by conservative media personality Nick Sortor and self-described &#8220;right-wing provocateur&#8221; Rhein Amacher, which included an audio recording of a woman who is purportedly an employee at the Lindner Center of Hope, a mental health facility in Mason, Ohio.
In the recording, the woman appeared to suggest that a James Talarico had recently been discharged from the facility, telling the callers she could not locate more detailed information because the discharge was so recent.
“Okay, nothing for James Talarico?” one of the callers asked.
“Let’s see, looks, well, this is what it’s — today — looks like he was just discharged this evening,” the woman replied. “That’s why I don’t have it.”
“Oh, he was discharged then?”
“Mmhmm,” she responded. “So he should be —”
When asked where she was located, the woman identified the Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio.
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🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week
The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE
Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.
While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.
The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful.
And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.
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The Daily Wire has not independently verified the woman’s identity, her employment at the facility, or the claim made in the recording.
Jennifer Pierson, a representative of the Lindner Center, told The Daily Wire in an email that the facility would not disclose information about current or former patients.
“Lindner Center of Hope respects the privacy and confidentiality of all individuals,” Pierson wrote. “We do not confirm or deny whether any individual is or has been a patient, and we do not comment on individual cases.”
The speculation began after Talarico, appearing remotely at a U.S. Hispanic Business Council event on September 30, said he had been diagnosed with the flu at an urgent care clinic in Dallas. He then disappeared from the campaign trail for two weeks, with no further explanation given. His campaign maintained that he was recovering, but the prolonged absence fueled online rumors about his whereabouts and health.
Last week, unverified rumors from a number of sources began to spread that Talarico was experiencing some kind of mental health episode, not merely a nasty bout of influenza.
The Lindner Center of Hope provides mental health evaluations and treatment for children and adults, including inpatient, outpatient, and residential programs. The facility also offers a 10-day diagnostic assessment and a 28-day residential treatment program.
Its services cover a range of conditions, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, schizophrenia, and addiction. It is the same facility where Harris County, Texas, Judge Lina Hidalgo, another high-profile Democrat in the state, spent seven weeks receiving inpatient care in 2023 for depression.
Talarico <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/talarico-ends-his-disappearing-act-with-a-festival-cameo">resurfaced</a> Friday with a brief stop at the Austin City Limits music festival, where he filmed a promotional video with country music star Kacey Musgraves. Some social media users added additional speculation about a <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/JTL750">private jet flight</a> that departed from Austin, Texas, on Thursday night to Hamilton, Ohio, before returning Friday morning.

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President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that the Democratic Party was long overdue for a name change that better reflected what the party truly represented within the current political landscape.
Trump made it clear that the Democratic Party had already done a thorough job of reinventing itself, embracing the socialists and communists that threaten to devour the organization from within and gleefully taking the 20-side of every 80-20 issue — like men playing in women&#8217;s sports and legal requirements for voter identification — and he suggested that it was high time for the party to be rebranded as well.
&#8220;I think that the Democrats have become the Socialists of America and I think that they ought to get rid of the name Democrat because it&#8217;s no longer accurate,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;But you have a combination of socialists and communists, and I think frankly, the word democrat is a — or &#8216;dumocrat,&#8217; as I call them — but I think it&#8217;s a very inaccurate name.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrat is a — they&#8217;re really socialists, they&#8217;ve become socialists,&#8221; Trump repeated, adding, &#8220;And they&#8217;re being dragged much further left than socialists.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments come as a number of self-described Democratic socialists — including some who have aligned themselves with the radical Democratic Socialists of America — sit poised to win seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. And although most of them ran on watered-down platforms calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), police, and prisons, the official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dsa-uses-newfound-power-to-get-even-more-extreme">DSA platform</a> calls for the complete abolition of the United States Senate and the reinterpretation of both the presidency and the Supreme Court.
In addition, the DSA would have the United States dissolve all foreign military installations and defer to the notoriously anti-Israel International Criminal Court to handle accusations of war crimes.
The entire program, as previously reported by The Daily Wire, reads like part Marxist wishlist, part antisemitic fever dream: demanding open borders and mass amnesty; calling for a free Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital; and demanding the confiscation of large corporations and “aggressive wealth taxes.”
Some formerly within the party are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/panic-sets-in-dems-tailspin-as-they-realize-the-hostile-socialist-takeover-already-started" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sounding the alarm</a> — former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Democratic strategist James Carville, and comedian Bill Maher — but many appear to be ignoring the “socialist” part in a desperate bid to get more “democrats” on Capitol Hill.

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher gave New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani an earful over his &#8220;tone deaf&#8221; comments marking the third anniversary of the horrific October 7th massacre.
Maher used his monologue to rip into the self-described democratic socialist, who issued a statement that gave lip service to the suffering of Israeli civilians at the hands of Hamas terrorists from Gaza before blaming Israel directly for the broader conflict.
&#8220;Mayor Mamdani, not all that sympathetic to this stuff, but he did make some nice remarks about it,&#8221; Maher said during his Friday night HBO show. &#8220;But then he pivoted right to, ‘but Israel made them do it.'&#8221;
Maher jabbed at Mamdani’s attempts to make it as a rapper, adding, &#8220;You know, he used to be a rapper. His rap name was &#8216;Tone Deaf.'&#8221;
Mamdani actually performed under the stage names &#8220;Young Cardamom” and “Mr. Cardamom.&#8221;
Mamdani was broadly criticized for his comments on the October 7th massacre, in which he attributed the majority of the blame to Israel for the ongoing conflict in the region.
&#8220;This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/10/statement-from-mayor-zohran-kwame-mamdani-on-the-third-anniversa">Mamdani wrote</a> — and with that, he immediately pivoted to blame the Jewish state.
<blockquote>The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them—all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-hamas-protesters-say-mamdani-can-win-them-back-by-firing-his-jewish-police-commissioner">Mamdani</a> also took heat from the antisemitic crowd when he appeared at an October 7th vigil in New York City. The event was disrupted by anti-Israel protesters who called the mayor a &#8220;traitor&#8221; and suggested that he could smooth things over by firing Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who is Jewish.

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President Donald Trump tore into &#8220;Dumocrats&#8221; in a Columbus Day message posted to his Truth Social account, blaming the left for the crusade to take down statues of the Italian explorer.
Trump posted the message early on Sunday morning ahead of the federal holiday on Monday — which Franklin D. Roosevelt first proclaimed as an annual national observance in 1937 — and declared the days of tearing down statues to be &#8220;over.&#8221;
&#8220;HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY TO ALL, in particular our great Italian American Community which was forced to suffer as the Radical Left Dumocrats, Socialists, and Communists rampaged through our cities and towns ripping down almost all of the beautiful statues of Christopher Columbus,&#8221; Trump posted.
&#8220;Well, those days of plunder are over, and the statues are back, more magnificent than ever,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is a big day for our great Italian American Community, and the Country of Italy itself, maybe the biggest. Congratulations!&#8221;
One such statue was placed in front of the Eisenhower Executivef Office Building, Trump announced in September.
&#8220;Christopher Columbus proudly stands at the entrance to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, directly adjacent to the White House, one of the most important Entrances to a Building in D.C. I did this in Honor of the Italian American Community — Industrious, brilliant, wonderful people. It is something that they have greatly appreciated!&#8221; he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117231833977439431">posted</a> on Truth Social.
Trump has consistently honored Columbus despite attempts from the left to have the famed explorer&#8217;s reputation disparaged and his statues torn down because of his alleged treatment of Native Americans.
&#8220;Christopher Columbus’s spirit of determination &amp; adventure has provided inspiration to generations of Americans. On #ColumbusDay, we honor his remarkable accomplishments as a navigator, &amp; celebrate his voyage into the unknown expanse of the Atlantic Ocean,&#8221; he posted on Twitter in 2018.
&#8220;I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.  I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation,&#8221; he added in the accompanying <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-columbus-day-2018/">Presidential Proclamation</a> honoring the day.
In a number of states, in response to pressure from the left, Columbus Day has either been renamed or combined with Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responded to a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with a brutal assessment of her economic literacy (or lack thereof), and he finished it off with a holiday twist.
In a letter dated October 9, Bessent responded to one he&#8217;d received two days earlier from the Massachusetts senator — in which she complained about the cost of the Iran war and that President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature One Big Beautiful Bill would add trillions to the national debt.
&#8220;I have received your October 7 letter, which adds to the mounting body of evidence of your complete paucity of knowledge about financial markets. Rather than take my suggestion of studying introductory economics, you have continued your letter-writing crusade and paid participation in tabloid fodder about the Treasury Department,&#8221; Bessent began.
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Warren claimed in the letter that the One Big Beautiful Bill would add nearly $5 trillion to the deficit over the next decade — and that it would solely benefit &#8220;ultra-wealthy and large corporations — while cutting health care and food assistance for families. Meanwhile, the Iran war has cost taxpayers an estimated $43.6 billion to date, according to the Pentagon.&#8221;
Responding to Warren&#8217;s claims that Bessent was helping to drive up costs, Bessent added, &#8220;It is difficult to treat your concern as sincere. As the federal funds rate climbed from near zero to its highest level in 22 years, with inflation hitting a 40-year high, you were a cheerleader for the Biden Administration&#8217;s reckless spending.&#8221;
&#8220;While you voted for a $5 trillion tax hike on everyday Americans, the Working Families Tax Cuts continue to deliver for families and workers across the country,&#8221; he added, noting that when things got worse for everyday Americans, she&#8217;d blamed the Federal Reserve instead of &#8220;your own irresponsible fiscal policies.&#8221;
Bessent laid out some of the numbers from the 2025 tax season, saying that the average tax refund had been $3400 — an 11% increase over the previous year – and that millions had benefited from increased deductions and provisions such as &#8220;no tax on tips&#8221; and &#8220;no tax on overtime.&#8221;
He concluded the letter with an offer to provide Warren with a &#8220;Foreign Exchange for Dummies&#8221; tutorial, adding a jab about her history as a Harvard University professor while he taught at academic rival Yale: &#8220;If you receive a passing grade to the Yale metric, not the Harvard curve, I would be happy to also include a Fixed Income for Dummies.&#8221;
He finished off the letter with a handwritten note across the bottom, wishing a &#8220;Happy Indigenous People&#8217;s Day in advance to you and your family.&#8221; Warren&#8217;s longtime claims of Native American heritage blew up in her face when a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-may-issue-official-apology-her-emily-zanotti">DNA test</a> revealed that she was just 1/64 to 1/1024 Native American — despite the fact that she&#8217;d previously claimed that heritage in order to receive minority considerations. She then had to apologize to several tribes who chastised her for taking the test at all, after they argued that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fbd21514284b461889161861a4161495">DNA testing</a> was not the true measure of Native American ancestry.

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Wherever he happens to be in the world, War Secretary Pete Hegseth often posts photos or videos of himself doing PT (Physical Training) with the troops — and critics are now using some of those videos to mock Hegseth’s fitness level.
Guys, the Secretary of War is not doing PT with the troops to prove to the terminally online fitness experts that he’s the baddest and the buffest soldier of them all. He’s doing it because it signals to every service member that he’s with them. I went through Army Basic Training in 1999, and it&#8217;s more clear than ever that some things never change: the leaders who earn the respect of their soldiers are the ones who get down in the mud with them.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth joins Marines from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing for a workout at the Miramar Sports Complex in San Diego.
The session included push-ups, pull-ups, weighted lunges, burpees and other exercises across 10 stations. https://t.co/fEc5pYOASt
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It&#8217;s also clear that some critics have no idea how military calisthenics are supposed to work. They post their videos and claim that Hegseth is &#8220;struggling&#8221; to finish — and never consider the possibility that the workout was designed to push soldiers to their absolute limits.
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Calisthenics workouts, from the very first days of training on, are absolutely brutal and intentionally so. I can recall more than a few core-focused workouts from my time at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, that reduced grown men to tears. If you don&#8217;t look like you&#8217;re dying — or at least feel like you are — by the end of the session, then you&#8217;re not doing it right. Every workout is designed to push limits, test stamina, and drive you to muscle failure — after which you&#8217;re told to walk it off and do it again.
They&#8217;re made to induce failure — and then push you past it — in a safe environment because failure is not an option on the battlefield. The enemy is not going to give you a water break, and if you&#8217;re only halfway to safety when your legs give out, you have to be able to tap into that muscle memory.
So when the War Department posts these videos — even the ones that show Hegseth and some of the other service members eating sh*t at the end of a workout — the point is not that Hegseth is the verybestever™ at PT, and it never has been. It’s that he’s a leader who is willing to put himself in with his soldiers.
And it&#8217;s clear that the troops understand that. During Hegseth&#8217;s recent trip to greet the beleaguered sailors aboard the USS Lincoln, they watched as he held himself accountable for a verbal gaffe in real time. After announcing that at the outset of Epic Fury, they&#8217;d performed &#8220;60 hours of constant combat flight ops,&#8221; someone in the crowd shouted that it was actually more than 100 hours.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll do two push-ups,&#8221; Hegseth said, immediately acknowledging his error and taking the traditional military punishment upon himself. The sailors laughed and cheered as he knocked them out right there on the deck — and then corrected the record: &#8220;160 straight hours with 60 strike hours, okay, I stand corrected!&#8221;
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth drops to the deck for two push-ups after correcting himself while praising service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln for their combat flight operations during Epic Fury.
The sailors erupt in cheers as Hegseth knocks out the push-ups before jumping back into his remarks.
&#8220;160 straight hours with 60 strike hours. Okay, I stand corrected.&#8221;
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So does it matter, as critics suggest, if Hegseth lags behind some of the troops on a run? Of course not! He’s 46 years old and no longer on active duty. I’m 47, and it might shock you to learn that I&#8217;m not only quite a bit slower than I was during training (when I was 20), but I can no longer do the nine pull-ups I could at peak condition. The fact that professional soldiers in their late teens and early twenties can outrun a man old enough to be their father is not sad; it’s expected — or at least it should be.
EXHIBIT A: My dad, CPT John Greenplate (1954-2017), was 44 when he received his commission into the U.S. Army Reserve — just two years younger than Hegseth is now — and because the age cutoff at the time was 37, he had to request a waiver in order to be accepted. The recruiter warned that the waiver would hinge on how well he did at PT. Dad just laughed.
A four-minute miler for much of his high school and college career, Dad held the Delaware State High School record in the two-mile (9:21) from 1972-2012 and went to the NCAA championships with William &amp; Mary’s 4th-place cross country team in 1973. At 44, he could still lay down a mile in under six flat.
After several reserve drill weekends, he called me to complain, asking, “What’s wrong with these kids?”
His concern: he was outrunning them. Easily. To him, the younger soldiers were supposed to be faster and stronger than he was, and it worried him that they weren’t.
It&#8217;s also worth noting that any time a big name shows up at PT, the rank and file interpret that as an open challenge — they all know that the guy who outran or did more pull-ups than the War Secretary will never have to pay for a drink again, especially if there&#8217;s proof.
So keep posting videos of Hegseth getting tired at the end of a session, “struggling” to finish a calisthenics workout, and “trailing behind” the troops on a run. You’re missing the point — and making his.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan&#8217;s December 3 execution by firing squad will be made public, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ll make sure that people are able to watch it.&#8221;
Hegseth told &#8220;Human Events&#8221; host Jack Posobiec that he wanted to make sure people understood the serious consequences of Hasan&#8217;s attack, which killed 13 people in 2009.
Hegseth said the execution has been scheduled to mirror Hasan&#8217;s massacre, taking place at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m. local time, matching the day of the week and time of the attack.
&#8220;An Army Major betrays his country, radical Islamist, kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood — of course we&#8217;re going to do it at Fort Hood. We&#8217;re going to do it on a Thursday, we&#8217;re going to do it at one o&#8217;clock, which is when he did it, and it&#8217;s going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t been since World War II since we&#8217;ve done that, and I kind of like the mentality that we had in World War II, which was WIN. Which was understand when the enemy attacks you, you stand your ground.&#8221;
&#8220;So it was a radical Islamist terror attack,&#8221; Hegseth continued, asking, &#8220;Remember what Obama called it? Workplace violence? I mean, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re up against. That&#8217;s the world view we&#8217;re up against. It&#8217;s &#8216;workplace violence.&#8217; We know what it is, it was a radical Islamist attack in uniform, inside the ranks and so he&#8217;s going to get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it&#8217;s public. Because people need to understand that this is — there&#8217;s serious consequences for these types of things!&#8221; the War Secretary declared.
Posobiec asked whether Hasan had made any special requests, but Hegseth made it clear he wasn&#8217;t interested in hearing any of that.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t care. We&#8217;ll see him on December 3rd,&#8221; he replied.
Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood in 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others while yelling &#8220;Allahu Akbar.&#8221; He was sentenced to death in 2013.

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Angel Carrasco flashed a wide grin at bystanders Thursday as New York City&#8217;s finest marched him out of a police station in shackles.
The accused killer kept smiling as officers escorted him to a waiting vehicle. Spectators shouted at him as he passed. &#8220;Coward! Coward!&#8221; they yelled. &#8220;I hope they f*cking kill your *ss in jail.&#8221;
Carrasco, 31, is accused of throwing his girlfriend, Nathaly Ramirez, 23, and their eight-month-old baby girl, Angel Novalty Carrasco-Ramirez, from a 15th-floor balcony before sunrise on Tuesday. The fall killed Ramirez, but The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/08/us-news/monster-accused-of-pushing-girlfriend-baby-off-nyc-balcony-flashes-demonic-grin-as-hes-hauled-away-by-cops/">reported</a> that the infant is still holding on at nearby Jacobi Hospital.
According to law enforcement, Carrasco arrived at Ramirez&#8217;s apartment with flowers, hoping to reconcile after he&#8217;d been arrested twice at that location for domestic violence. When his reconciliation attempt failed, he allegedly threw Ramirez and the baby off the balcony before fleeing the scene.
&#8220;I heard someone shouting, ‘Jump!’ It was a male voice,&#8221; Robin Mendzies, one of Ramirez&#8217;s neighbors, told The Post on Wednesday. &#8220;Then I heard a big thud and a woman wailing, ‘No, please, no!’ It sounded like she was begging for an inevitable thing not to happen.&#8221;
&#8220;In the last moment of her life she was protecting her daughter,&#8221; Ramirez&#8217;s high school friend Dominique Rosado told The Post. &#8220;That’s what it means to be a mother. She was a good mother.&#8221;
Local law enforcement officers and U.S. Marshals apprehended Carrasco on Wednesday evening.
He was <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/07/us-news/thug-in-fatal-15th-floor-shove-of-mom-and-baby-brought-flowers-to-reconcile-for-domestic-assaults-sources/">previously arrested</a> at Ramirez&#8217;s apartment in January and charged with third-degree assault after he allegedly slapped her for complaining that he&#8217;d been talking to an ex-girlfriend. Three days later, he was charged with breaking into the apartment and waiting for Ramirez to return.
He also had at least one prior arrest for sending threatening texts to another ex-girlfriend and two additional arrests for unrelated offenses.

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U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) appeared to struggle to decide whether Israel or the Iranian regime posed a greater threat to the United States.
Leland Vittert, host of &#8220;On Balance,&#8221; posed the question in reference to a claim made by one of El-Sayed&#8217;s supporters — who had openly declared Israel to be the greater threat.
&#8220;One of your supporters we interviewed seemed to think that Iran was a bigger threat — Israel — seemed to think Israel was a bigger threat than Iran to the United States. Do you agree?&#8221; Vittert asked.
El-Sayed, rather than answer the question directly, attempted to reframe the conversation by suggesting that Iran was only a threat because Israel had made it so.
&#8220;Well, look, at the end of the day, our job is to address our issues diplomatically,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But, right now, we are in the war in Iran, in part, because of the advocacy of the Israeli prime minister. There&#8217;s no disagreement on that. He came to the Situation Room and advocated for the war.&#8221;
El-Sayed went on to argue that depending on how one defined the word &#8220;threat,&#8221; the fact that the United States sends money to Israel in addition to funding the current military action posed a threat to everyday Americans by making things less affordable.
&#8220;We&#8217;re now paying, what? $1,600 for it — our gas, our groceries are unaffordable. And that&#8217;s on top of the billions in tax dollars that we spend sending our money over there. Now, how we think about a threat, that&#8217;s &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re going to be a senator, what do you view as the biggest threat?&#8221; Vittert attempted once more to get a straight answer out of El-Sayed.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been more than extremely clear about this. I don&#8217;t want our tax dollars being used to subsidize war abroad. I don&#8217;t want our tax dollars being used to fund, unconditionally, foreign militaries. I think it&#8217;s important that we be the first among equals to enforce international law against any and every country that breaks it. So, this sort of, like, hypothetical, who&#8217;s a bigger threat is a dumb question,&#8221; he claimed, adding, &#8220;The big question is … what is the public policy we really want?&#8221;
Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who is running against El-Sayed, argued that the question was not &#8220;dumb&#8221; but the answer was concerning.
&#8220;Radio silence from Abdul El-Sayed about the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks — yet this surfaces today. I wish I could say this is shocking. When people tell you who they are, believe them,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/2107934422280638673">posted</a> on X.

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A Tennessee judge ordered the state Wednesday to preserve all evidence related to the September 30 botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike.
Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles granted the request at a status hearing after Pike&#8217;s attorneys argued that evidence from the failed attempt would be needed to challenge any future effort to execute her.
&#8220;The state has made no promises that Miss Pike will not be subject to our future execution, and the evidence that we are seeking to preserve now is relevant for any future challenge that she makes,&#8221; attorney Luke Ihnen argued.
The order covers medical supplies used during the attempt — syringes, needles, tubing, and drugs — as well as the packaging labels that came with them and any notes from the medical professionals involved. It also includes anything that came with those supplies from the manufacturers, any photos or videos, and any notes taken during the proceedings.
Myles further ordered the state to make every effort to &#8220;claw back&#8221; anything that had already been discarded.
&#8220;The state will have no problem doing this because you all are already doing that,&#8221; Myles stated.
Ihnen also petitioned the court to allow Pike&#8217;s shackles to be removed and to give her access to a tablet or a phone.
Myles took the request regarding the shackles under advisement but has not yet ruled. She did allow Pike access to a phone, her tablet from the jail, and visitation with her attorneys.
Pike received two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital during the September 30 execution attempt. She was taken to a hospital after the second dose failed to kill her and regained consciousness six days later.
Her attorneys said she was confused when she woke up and has since asked what happened.
&#8220;I was not in the room when she woke up, so I don’t want to speculate too much, but from our understanding the first thing she said when she woke up was, ‘Where am I, and who are you?’ &#8230; She has wanted to know what happened. She’s asked about her team, the victim’s family.&#8221;
The state confirmed at Wednesday&#8217;s hearing that there is no pending order for another execution attempt, but has left the possibility on the table.
&#8220;There is no pending execution order for Ms. Pike and there is no allegation that one is coming,&#8221; Tennessee Assistant Attorney General John W. Ayers said.
When Myles asked whether the state would rule out a future execution order, Ayers responded: &#8220;I can’t answer that question.&#8221;

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Bodycam footage released on Tuesday showed a 6-year-old perpetrator swearing at teachers and police officers after shooting Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner in Newport News, Virginia, in 2023.
Immediately after the 2023 shooting, Zwerner and 16 other students fled the room while the alleged shooter — identified only as &#8220;J.T.&#8221; — was being restrained by reading specialist Amy Kovac when the police arrived. Zwerner later collapsed in the school office.
The <a href="https://x.com/_Patriot1776Q_/status/2107644446162767999">footage</a> came from the bodycam worn by Officer Brian Torrez, who responded to the scene with several other officers.
&#8220;The gun is there,” Kovac said, pointing across the room. &#8220;He just admitted that he had one … he had one bullet.&#8221;
The investigation revealed that there were additional bullets in the gun at the time.
&#8220;I got a weapon,&#8221; one of the sheriff&#8217;s deputies confirmed.
&#8220;Both y’all want a f*cking piece of me, b*tch?!&#8221; the boy shouted.
&#8220;Stop!&#8221; Kovac told the boy.
“F*ck you, b*tch,” he turned on her.
&#8220;Leave the gun there,&#8221; Torrez said, and a deputy stood by the weapon to keep eyes on it. It was identified later as a 9 mm Taurus handgun.
&#8220;We have the shooter,&#8221; one of the officers confirmed over the radio.
&#8220;I told the (assistant principal) that there was a threat earlier about it,&#8221; Kovac said.
&#8220;That (racial slur) retired last year,&#8221; the student shouted, but he did not say who he was talking about.
&#8220;How old is he?&#8221; one officer asked.
&#8220;He is 6 years old,&#8221; Kovac replied. &#8220;He has been on a modified schedule. His mother is to pick him up at 2:30. This is his first week without his mother coming to school with him.&#8221;
&#8220;1346, myself, and 2347 — and a sheriff’s deputy — are inside Room 11 with the suspect,&#8221; Torrez said, and he put on gloves. &#8220;Gun is secure.&#8221;
Kovac went on to say that she had been down the hall when she heard the shot and had been the one to call 911.
&#8220;We have some small handcuffs?&#8221; one officer asked, and another asked about the gun — which was still on the floor.
&#8220;Do you want me to stay?&#8221; Kovac asked the officers, still holding the student.
&#8220;You can stay for now if you feel comfortable,&#8221; Torrez said, and then asked of the student, &#8220;Um, is he okay?&#8221;
&#8220;He’s fine,&#8221; Kovac said. &#8220;You fine? Turn around. When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?&#8221;
&#8220;No,&#8221; he replied.
&#8220;Where is the weapon?&#8221; another officer asked.
&#8220;It’s on the floor,&#8221; Kovac answered.
“It’s over there, whore,” the boy said.
&#8220;Stop,&#8221; Kovac said to him. &#8220;That’s not how we speak to each other.&#8221;
“F*ck you,” he said again. “F*ck you. F*ck you, b*tch.”
After determining that the boy did have what appeared to be gun residue on his hands, the officers instructed everyone not to touch his hands.
&#8220;My mom had that,&#8221; the boy said of the handgun, adding, &#8220;I stole that from my mom.&#8221;
Police asked for his name, which he gave. The audio of his name was muted on the released footage.
&#8220;If you want a piece of me, come get it on, b*tch,&#8221; the boy said. &#8220;I don’t care if you call backup. I don’t care if I go to jail, b*tch.”
&#8220;OK, buddy,&#8221; the sergeant said.
Kovac scolded the boy for his language, at which point she alleged that he punched her, knocking off her glasses.
&#8220;Young man,&#8221; the sergeant took the boy from the classroom then, saying, &#8220;Come here. You’re gonna come with me, son.&#8221;
The bodycam footage was <a href="https://www.pilotonline.com/2026/10/06/richneck-classroom-video/">initially sealed</a> due to the presence of a minor, but was later unsealed with the stipulation that the minor&#8217;s face would be blurred.

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