A man reportedly fell to his death from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta on Monday, a horrific scene that was captured in a souvenir photo.  
Police confirmed that one person died and several others were injured in an incident involving the ride, but did not immediately confirm how the death or injuries occurred.
“We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today. Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with the guest&#8217;s family, friends, and loved ones,” a Six Flags spokesperson said in a statement. 
11Alive <a href="https://www.11alive.com/video/news/local/witnesses-claim-man-fell-off-roller-coaster-at-six-flags-over-georgia/85-387aca4e-1dde-441b-a704-25ff4ef0ecd0">reported</a> that the man was on the ride with a child. A witness on the coaster told the outlet that he struck other passengers as he fell before landing on the roof of a haunted house attraction. 
&#8220;He was in our pictures,&#8221; the witness said, referring to the souvenir pictures available for purchase after the ride. &#8220;He fell and hit the car three different times.&#8221; Witnesses said that Six Flags workers checked the restraints before the ride began. 
“The park team and local authorities responded immediately, and we are cooperating fully with local authorities as they complete their investigation,” the Six Flags spokesperson said. 
The theme park added that it would not share further details “out of respect for the family&#8217;s privacy.&#8221; 
The incident happened around 4 p.m., and riders were evacuated from the coaster. 
A previous death following a ride on Goliath occurred in 2006, when a 45-year-old man suffered an apparent heart attack. Authorities inspected the coaster afterward and found it was operating properly.
 In August, The Daily Wire reported on X2, a different coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California, after a CNN investigation linked the ride to serious injuries and two deaths. Six Flags closed X2 in July and announced in late September that it would permanently retire the ride after several lawsuits claimed it caused brain injuries.

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WASHINGTON— Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, called Monday for Catholic service members assigned to the firing squad for Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan to request to be excused.
Broglio spoke out in a Monday statement that deplored the Pentagon&#8217;s plan to live-stream Hasan&#8217;s execution, writing: &#8220;I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church.”
&#8220;I could not agree more with Archbishop Broglio on this issue,&#8221; Bishop Joseph Coffey, who serves as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, told The Daily Wire on Monday.
&#8220;It’s a terrible idea,&#8221; Coffey added. &#8220;There’s a good reason why the US Military has not executed a prisoner since 1961. It’s barbaric. I’m hoping and praying that the SecDef and President Trump change their minds and do not go through with this.&#8221;
Traditionally, the Catholic Church allowed capital punishment by legitimate civil authorities under specific conditions: the offender needed to be guilty of a grave crime, the guilt must be established through a legitimate judicial process, the punishment must be proportionate to the offense, and the execution must serve the common good rather than revenge.
Modern maximum security prisons, rehabilitation programs, and criminal justice systems have all contributed to a much sterner view of the death penalty by the Catholic Church.
Pope John Paul II, now a saint in the Catholic Church, said that execution should be reserved for cases of absolute necessity, when society could not otherwise be defended. Pope Francis revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church in 2018 to state that the death penalty is inadmissible and violates the dignity of the human person.
Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed that teaching in an October 10 social media post, saying: “The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.&#8221;
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on October 8 that the execution would take place on December 3 at Fort Hood, at the same time of day as Hasan&#8217;s 2009 terrorist attack, which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Hegseth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fort-hood-terrorists-execution-will-be-public-and-mirror-his-deadly-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Real America’s Voice’s Jack Posobiec</a> in an interview aboard the USS Lincoln. “That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things!”
The War Department declined to comment for this report.
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Broglio strongly condemned Hasan&#8217;s attack at Fort Hood, calling the shooter&#8217;s violence &#8220;an attack that disregarded the dignity of the human person.&#8221; He noted that he presided over the funeral of Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed in the shooting.
“Secondly, I repeat the opposition of the Catholic Church to capital punishment,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;The Catechism was already clear and Pope Francis made it even clearer.  The dignity of the human person is again at stake.&#8221;
“Thirdly,&#8221; Broglio continued, &#8220;do we really want to imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries?  The crime committed by Nidal Malik Hasan was heinous, but does exposing the public to his execution serve any purpose?&#8221;
&#8220;Has the potential moral injury, which the members of the firing squad might experience, been considered?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Will the exposure of a live stream to the young and impressionable during the 250th anniversary year of our independence be able to be repaired?&#8221;
Broglio also questioned how broadcasting the execution would affect the military&#8217;s reputation.
&#8220;Is there really a value to throwing them in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a man in a wheelchair to the whole world? Does this decision reflect the dignity of the human person?&#8221; he asked.
“I call upon all men and women of good will to ask that this decision be reconsidered and, at the very least, do what is possible to keep the exposure to the live-streaming of the proposed execution from the vision of the young and impressionable,&#8221; he added. &#8220;As I would in the case of a procured abortion, I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church.”
On Friday, Vice President JD Vance was asked by a reporter how he viewed the planned public execution as a Catholic. Vance said he would not watch a livestream and questioned whether the broadcast would happen.
“Well, first of all, I see these announcements, I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen,&#8221; he told reporters.
“But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11, the people that he was meant to treat, the Army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their most vulnerable and gunned down these people where they lived,” Vance said.
The vice president added: “So whatever the controversy is about the method of the execution, I hope that people don’t forget that this is a guy who brutally murdered a lot of innocent people. Now that said, I mean, look, if it’s through live stream, I’m not going to be watching it.”

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Authorities are investigating whether a serial killer is responsible for the deaths of five homeless men found dead or fatally injured along a Michigan trail.
“What we need the public to know is we are investigating all of these cases,” said Lansing Police Chief Robert Backus. “We are looking at the idea or the possibility that these may be related cases. Based on how we found our victims and their surroundings it would lead us to believe that this could be a pattern.”
Four of the five men were found with severe facial injuries, and police said all of the victims appear to be homeless white men. All five men were found along roughly the same one-mile stretch of the Lansing River Trail. Police suspect the injuries were inflicted overnight or in the early morning, possibly while the men were lying down or sleeping along the trail. Investigators have not established that the deaths are connected.
The first victim, Gino Chouinard, 54, was <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/10/04/lansing-police-investigate-river-trail-deaths-homeless-men/92092081007/">found</a> unconscious with head trauma on October 14, 2025. He died on October 27, and his cause of death remains undetermined. Denis Dunnebacke, 70, was found with severe head trauma on July 9, 2026, and died from his injuries on July 16. Robert Smith, 57, was found with severe head trauma on July 13 and died on July 17. 
Daniel Lusk, 22, was found with a fatal stab wound along the trail on August 20. Police arrested Edward Joseph Smith, 23, in connection with Lusk&#8217;s death. He has not been accused of involvement in the other four deaths. Louis Woodruff, 57, was found with facial trauma on August 30 and died on September 1.
Lansing Mayor Andy Schor <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/serial-killer-fears-strike-college-town-school-fortifies-security-amid-popular-river-trail-deaths">sought</a> to reassure the public, saying, “The Lansing River Trail and our downtown remain safe for residents and visitors. LPD has significantly increased their presence downtown and on the river trail at all hours of the day and night.”
The deaths have also sparked concern at nearby Michigan State University. Fox News reported that Lusk&#8217;s stabbing occurred less than a mile from campus. A spokesperson for the Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety said, “The MSU portion of the trail has upgraded security measures to include additional LED lighting and Green Light emergency phones with public safety cameras, and it is routinely patrolled by MSU Police Officers on bike patrols.” 
&#8220;We encourage students using the trail to remain aware of their surroundings and take reasonable precautions to help ensure their safety, especially at night.&#8221;
Research has documented a broader <a href="https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/26/serial-killer-decline/">decline</a> in the number of known active serial killers in the United States. A 2023 Northeastern University article reported nearly 300 known active serial killers in the 1970s and more than 250 in the 1980s, when they accounted for between 120 and 180 deaths annually. By the 2010s, the number of known active serial killers had fallen below 50.
Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox attributed the decline to advances in forensic technology, higher incarceration rates, and changes in public behavior, including the decline of hitchhiking, which once gave killers opportunities to target strangers.

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&#8220;The Real Housewives of New Jersey&#8221; star Teresa Giudice traveled to the White House as her family continues seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump for her ex-husband. 
Giudice and her eldest daughter, Gia, went to the White House Friday for a Columbus Day celebration of Italian-American heritage at the invitation of the president and the first lady. Giudice’s ex-husband, Joe Giudice, served 41 months in federal prison for fraud after using falsified documents to get $5 million in loans and failing to report $1 million in income to the IRS. Teresa also served 11 months in prison, but only Joe, who is not a United States citizen, was deported to Italy in 2019 after being held in ICE custody. 
The Giudices ended their marriage after Joe’s deportation, but Teresa is still advocating for her ex-husband’s return. 
“Even though Joe and I are not together, I would love for him to come back to America,” Teresa <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/entertainment/reality-star-sought-president-trumps-help-with-deported-father-after-chrisley-family-pardon/">said</a>. “I feel like he does belong here. He’s been here since he was one… And it was paperwork that he went away for. I’m hopeful too, that he comes back.”
In July 2025, Gia publicly asked Trump to pardon her father. 
“My name is Gia Giudice. I&#8217;m the daughter of Joe Giudice, and today I&#8217;m using my voice for something deeply personal,&#8221; she <a href="https://ew.com/gia-giudice-asks-trump-to-pardon-father-joe-giudice-after-chrisleys-11767201">said</a> in a video shared to social media. “My dad was deported over four years ago. Since then, our family has lived in an emotional limbo. No matter how strong we try to be, the absence of a father, of a parent, is something that never stops hurting.&#8221;
She also showed a letter she had written to Trump. In a post about the recent White House visit, Deputy Assistant to the President Lynne Patton stressed that she does not make pardon decisions.
“I am not in charge of pardons. Nor do I decide who receives them.” She added, “However, I will say this, I believe deeply in second chances.”
Gia cited Trump&#8217;s pardons of fellow reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/television-personalities-sentenced-years-federal-prison-fraud-and-tax-evasion">convicted</a> of fraud and tax evasion, as inspiration for her appeal.
&#8220;Watching the Chrisley family receive a second chance inspired me,&#8221; Gia said. &#8220;It showed me that people can be forgiven, that families could be restored and that sometimes the justice system has room for grace. That gave me hope.&#8221;
President Trump <a href="https://people.com/todd-and-julie-chrisley-pardoned-by-president-donald-trump-amid-ongoing-case-11742739">called</a> Chrisley&#8217;s sentencing “a terrible thing.” The couple’s daughter, Savannah Chrisley, spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024. She advocated for Trump’s election and criticized the U.S. justice system. 
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A defense attorney for one of the men accused in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unearthed-texts-show-cornell-accuser-told-men-i-really-do-love-u-days-after-claimed-rape?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Unearthed+Texts+Show+Cornell+Accuser+Told+Men+‘I+Really+Do+Love+U’+Days+After+Claimed+Rape">Cornell 7</a> case is asking a judge to restrict public statements by attorneys and other parties involved in the lawsuit, arguing that media comments could prejudice potential jurors.
James Knox, who represents Diego Sarabia, is seeking the restrictions over public comments by the accuser’s attorney, Thomas Giuffra. The proposed order would restrict public statements by both sides. Sarabia is accused in the civil lawsuit of forcibly kissing the accuser and snorting ketamine off her naked body at a Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024.
Giuffra has made a series of public statements about the allegations, accusing Cornell officials of a “cover-up” and claiming they prioritized the university’s reputation and revenue over accountability. In an interview with CBS News, he declared that the seven defendants were “not all gang rapists” but were “all sexual abusers.”
He also described a Snapchat group-chat message as the “smoking gun” in the case, arguing that more than 50 fraternity members saw it and did not stop an alleged assault on his client, known as Jane Doe. On CNN, Giuffra said he believed more than seven men may have participated in the alleged assault, blaming what he characterized as an inadequate investigation.
Giuffra <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/10/12/us-news/cornell-7-lawyer-demands-gag-order-on-accusers-attorney-over-crucial-issue/">told</a> the New York Post that the request was an attempt &#8220;to silence me and Ms. Doe.&#8221; He also accused defense lawyers of leaking confidential documents and making their own public comments about the case.
Doe accused the seven male students of being involved in her alleged sexual assault in 2024, but Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten declined to bring charges at the time, citing insufficient evidence. Her recently filed civil lawsuit brought renewed attention to the case, and Van Houten said its allegations differed sharply from her original account.
All seven accused men have denied the allegations and maintain their innocence. At least three of the accused men say it was Doe who was the aggressor and that she did not obtain their consent. One of the men, Matthew Ingalls, says Doe sexually assaulted him, but the university did nothing about his allegations.
Text messages reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unearthed-texts-show-cornell-accuser-told-men-i-really-do-love-u-days-after-claimed-rape?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Unearthed+Texts+Show+Cornell+Accuser+Told+Men+‘I+Really+Do+Love+U’+Days+After+Claimed+Rape">The Daily Wire</a>, show that, two days after the alleged gang rape, Doe told one of the men she now accuses of raping her that she loved him and described the sexual activity as “not illegal,” adding, “our body our choice.”
In the texts, the accuser expressed annoyance to Jonathan Newell that sorority girls were talking about her promiscuity after the encounter, but reassured Newell that what happened that night was “not illegal” and that they had no reason to feel ashamed.
“I just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night,” Newell wrote, adding that he and Ingalls should have “shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand.”
“I’m getting a little heat (Pi Phi girls [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] can’t get my name out of their mouth) but that’s to be expected,” Doe wrote. “But at the end of the day non (sic) of the sexual stuff was illegal and honestly I really liked being with you and Matt. So anything anyone has to say about the [gang bang] is out of their jurisdiction.”
“I don’t think we should feel any shame for the part. Our body our choice asf (as f*ck),” she continued.
In another message, Doe wrote, “If you have any regrets or anything you want to talk about I am always here to talk about it cause I that was a lot. I really do love u and Matt and I promise I won’t get quiet and weird w u like I did last time &lt;4.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has tapped Attorney General Letitia James to serve as special prosecutor, taking over the criminal investigation after Hochul said the civil suit raised questions about the information Van Houten&#8217;s office relied on in declining to bring charges.

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A small Florida newspaper thought it had published a standard opinion article critiquing the Iran war. Weeks later, OpenAI identified its purported author as part of an Iranian influence operation using fake journalists and AI-assisted articles to infiltrate news outlets.
The Port St. Joe Star published the article “The cost of American power in the Iran War” on Sept. 22 under the byline Ervin B. Hoskins. 
But according to a <a href="https://openai.com/index/disrupting-ai-enabled-false-front-operations/">report</a> released Thursday by OpenAI, Hoskins is a fake persona that was part of an “influence campaign” originating in Iran. Its operators used ChatGPT to &#8220;refine&#8221; English-language articles and tailor them to the submission requirements of targeted publications. 
“This persona’s bio claimed to be ‘an American freelance writer,’ but social media transparency settings located the accounts in Iran,” the report said. The Washington Post also reported that OpenAI&#8217;s image-verification tool identified the author photo as AI-generated. 
OpenAI said Hoskins was one of seven fake journalist personas used by the operation, which the company called &#8220;Bogus Bylines.&#8221; The operators used ChatGPT to refine articles about the U.S.-Iran conflict and generate pitches to editors.
OpenAI said the activity appeared. consistent with a commercial operator conducting a campaign for hire, but it could not identify who was behind it.
The operation also generated batches of social media comments that supported its messaging. Some were posted online within minutes of one another.
OpenAI identified almost 100 articles published or syndicated under the operation&#8217;s bylines across more than a dozen publications. The Washington Post reported that the campaign reached at least 20 news outlets.
“Using open-source investigation techniques, we identified almost 100 articles that had been published under one or other of the operators’ bylines,” the report stated. “These publications generally focused on international affairs, geopolitics, and events in the Middle East, sometimes from an antiwar or progressive point of view.”
The earliest article OpenAI identified was published in July 2025, and the frequency of publication increased after the U.S.-Iran war broke out earlier this year.
The Middle East Monitor published articles under several of the operation&#8217;s bylines, including Hoskins, Michael Harrison, Jenny Williams, and Alice Johnson. The site published at least 21 articles under bylines identified as fake, according to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/09/chatgpt-users-iran-planted-ai-generated-articles-us-news-media/">Post</a>.
While the operation&#8217;s social media comments attracted little engagement, its articles appeared in outlets with substantial followings, giving the campaign a potentially larger audience. One publication that carried the articles had &#8220;almost 2 million followers on Facebook, almost 355,000 followers on X, and over 544,000 on Instagram as of August 2026.&#8221;

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The FBI has issued a summons to actress Selma Blair, accusing her of assault after an incident aboard a flight in which she reportedly injured two flight attendants, biting at least one of them.
The violation notice lists &#8220;assaults within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/article/selma-blair-plane-9bce750da2a33f042b208388dd0b0f40">according</a> to The Associated Press. No date has been set for the actress&#8217;s first appearance in federal court in Brooklyn.
Blair was taken into custody Sunday after the Delta Air Lines plane arrived at JFK Airport following the alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/famous-actress-arrested-for-biting-flight-attendant-trying-to-open-plane-door">midair skirmish.</a> Her representative said she experienced a medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct.
It wasn&#8217;t the first time the &#8220;Cruel Intentions&#8221; star&#8217;s behavior aboard a flight had made headlines.
In 2016, the &#8220;Legally Blonde&#8221; actress was removed on a stretcher after an outburst aboard another Delta flight from Cancun, Mexico, to Los Angeles.
Entertainment site TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2016/06/20/selma-blair-flight-drinking-stretcher-lax/">reported</a> at the time that other passengers had witnessed her suddenly burst into tears, after which she began shouting strange things in the plane&#8217;s first-class section.
&#8220;He burns my private parts. He won&#8217;t let me eat or drink,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He beats me. He&#8217;s going to kill me.&#8221;
Witnesses told TMZ that Blair had been drinking wine and appeared to have combined it with medication. Two nurses reportedly checked her bag for pills, and the pilot reportedly radioed ahead about a passenger who had apparently mixed medication with alcohol.
When the plane landed at LAX, medical personnel came aboard and Blair was taken out on a stretcher.
Blair&#8217;s public apology came a day later — via a statement given to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/06/selma-blair-apologizes-plane-blackout">Vanity Fair</a> — in which she confirmed that Blair had mixed alcohol and medication with blacked out.
&#8220;I made a big mistake yesterday. After a lovely trip with my son and his Dad, I mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to black out and led me to say and do things that I deeply regret,&#8221; she began.
&#8220;My son was with his Dad asleep with his headphones on, so there is that saving grace. I take this very seriously, and I apologize to all of the passengers and crew that I disturbed and am thankful to all of the people who helped me in the aftermath,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I am a flawed human being who makes mistakes and am filled with shame over this incident. I am truly very sorry.&#8221;
Blair was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2018 and has since advocated for disability rights.

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A Saudi appeals court sentenced a 24-year-old Sri Lankan man to death for a Facebook comment insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
&#8220;I plead for mercy for the wrongs committed by my son. Please forgive him and send him back to us,” <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq14d438vx24o">said</a> Rasamanickam Yogalakshmi, the mother of Anojan Sivarasa. 
Sivarasa was arrested on July 1 after an online religious dispute sparked by a viral video from a Hindu pilgrimage in Sri Lanka. When another user posted derogatory remarks about a Hindu deity, Sivarasa replied in Tamil with an insult aimed at Muhammad. He later deleted his comment and posted an apology video after a screenshot was circulated and brought to his employer&#8217;s attention, according to the BBC.
 Sivarasa’s brother, Hamsidan Sivarasa, said people in Sri Lanka emailed his brother’s Saudi employer, which then notified Saudi authorities. 
&#8220;People in Saudi Arabia knew nothing about this matter. It was individuals in Sri Lanka who sent emails to the company where my brother worked. I do not even wish to mention who those people are,&#8221; Hamsidan told BBC Sinhala.
Saudi officials seized Sivarasa’s devices and deleted his social media accounts, according to the BBC. The Criminal Court in Al-Ahsa initially sentenced him to five years in prison and a fine equivalent to $800,000. 
An appeal seeking to reduce his original sentence was rejected, according to Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath. Saudi prosecutors separately sought to have him prosecuted under Sharia law rather than the country&#8217;s cybercrime legislation. On September 17, the appeals court granted that request and increased his sentence to death.  
Sivarasa has appealed the death sentence, according to Amnesty International.
“No one should be imprisoned, let alone face execution simply for expressing their views, even if these are deemed insulting or offensive,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty International&#8217;s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said. “Sentencing a man to death over a social media post is a chilling illustration of the Saudi authorities’ willingness to impose this cruel and irreversible punishment, including for acts that should never be criminalized.”
His family had received no updates on his condition since September 28, according to the BBC report.
“We informed the embassy and asked officials to look into the matter and update us,&#8221; Hamsidan said. &#8220;They said they would check. We are still waiting, as we have not yet received a response.”
Saudi Arabia has a history of carrying out death sentences without warning, sometimes telling families only afterward. It is one of the world’s leading executioners. At least <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/10/saudi-arabia-overturn-death-sentence-against-sri-lankan-migrant-worker-over-social-media-post/">175</a> people have been executed in the country so far this year as of October 5, according to Amnesty International.

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A new wave of Muslim donors with little history of political giving is pouring millions into efforts to elect Left-wing candidates, helping build a financial counterweight to pro-Israel groups.
American Priorities, a super PAC formed to counter pro-Israel political spending, has spent more than <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/the-crew-of-virtually-unknown-donors-powering-the-rise-of-the-new-left-191fcc85?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1">$500,000</a> supporting Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign and more than $1 million backing Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, two Democratic Socialists of America members who won New York congressional primaries.
A Wall Street Journal review found that five of its 12 largest donors also contributed to New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign. 
The Donor Class, a <a href="https://thedonorclass.substack.com/p/aipac-backed-candidates-keep-losing">newsletter</a> that interviewed two of the PAC&#8217;s donors, reported that the vast majority of its donors are Muslim Americans and entrepreneurs. The Journal described the emerging donor base as younger than traditional leftist megadonors, often of South Asian or Middle Eastern heritage, and working in fields such as technology and medicine.
Mohammad Waqas, CEO of New York-based Showcase Commerce and donor to both Mamdani and American Priorities, has given $1.1 million this election cycle, while Omer Hasan, a California tech worker, has contributed $1 million. The Journal found no federal political contributions from either donor between 2014 and 2024. 
Afaq Ahmed, a self-employed California investor, has given $517,500 this election cycle, according to the Journal. 
Ahmed said he didn&#8217;t believe El-Sayed would have won his Michigan primary without funding from American Priorities. 
&#8220;The [Michigan Democratic Senate primary] race was close,&#8221; he <a href="https://thedonorclass.substack.com/p/aipac-backed-candidates-keep-losing">said</a>. &#8220;But I think it just shows that if our money wasn&#8217;t there, I&#8217;m pretty confident [El-Sayed] wouldn&#8217;t have won.&#8221;
Texas investor Moiz Ali, who contributed only $900 between 2014 and 2024, has given $171,000 this election cycle. Texas businessman Sam Mahrouq, CEO of MEI Group, has given $686,709 since the start of 2025, up from $79,059 during the preceding 11 years, according to the Journal&#8217;s review. 
Not all of the PAC&#8217;s funding can be traced to individual donors. Fig and Olive Action, a Delaware corporation, has given the PAC $470,000 without disclosing who supplied the money.
For some donors, the war in Gaza helped spur their political involvement. Another donor to the PAC, Malek Jamil, said, &#8220;The war in Gaza was the tipping point for us to say &#8216;this is out of control&#8217; and that &#8216;nobody is going to fight this fight for us.'&#8221; 
Their rise adds a new source of money alongside the Hollywood donors and wealthy Democratic benefactors who have long financed leftist causes. Democracy PAC, run by George and Alex Soros, has given $7 million to leftist committees this cycle, according to the Journal.
The surge in donations comes alongside <a href="https://ispu.org/poll/american-muslim-poll-2025-full-report-3/">increased</a> Muslim voter registration. An Institute for Social Policy and Understanding survey found that 85% of Muslim Americans legally eligible to vote were registered in 2025. 
Despite the influx of money, leftist groups acknowledge that they still face a substantial financial disadvantage. 
“We will never have the amount of money that AIPAC or crypto have,” Justice Democrats spokesman Usamah Andrabi told the Wall Street Journal.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said in April that she would welcome any and all investigations into her personal history — and on Monday morning, federal agents gave her exactly what she asked for.
The investigation escalated with an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-raid-home-of-ilhan-omar-as-criminal-probe-expands">early morning raid</a> on her home — which Omar immediately characterized as a political hit job and further proof that President Donald Trump was &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; federal law enforcement. According to Fox News, the investigation centers on immigration documents completed by the congresswoman&#8217;s late father.
Omar, who was born the youngest of seven children in Mogadishu in 1982, lost her mother at the age of two and fled civil war in her home country of Somalia at the age of nine. She then lived for four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States with her father in 1995. She became a citizen five years later, in 2000, when she was 17.
The Minnesota congresswoman has been married three times — and it&#8217;s the second of those marriages that has raised red flags for federal law enforcement, as numerous reports have not only identified her second husband as likely her biological brother, but have alleged that the timelines of her first two marriages overlap considerably.
Omar first wed Ahmed Hirsi (AKA Ahmed Aden) in a Muslim ceremony in 2002. She applied for a legal marriage license at the time as well, according to the <a href="https://cis.org/North/SomaliaBorn-Candidate-Congress-Accused-ImmigrationMarriage-Fraud">Center for Immigration Studies</a>, but did not go through with a legal wedding. Omar and Hirsi had two children together before separating in 2008. Because they were not legally married, they did not need a civil divorce.
One year later, Omar married Ahmed Elmi — a citizen of the United Kingdom who referred to himself as a &#8220;dirty dandy.&#8221; Although many reports suggested that he was her biological brother — and that the marriage was an end run around the United States immigration —official birth certificates were never obtained because many records were destroyed while Somalia was engulfed in civil war.
Omar reportedly divorced Elmi in a religious ceremony only — meaning that legally they were still married when she reunited with Hirsi in 2012 and they had a third child together. In 2017, Omar and Elmi were legally divorced, and in 2018 she legally married Hirsi.
One year later, in 2019, Omar officially divorced Hirsi. Several months later, she married political consultant Tim Mynett, who had worked on her campaign before they married.
But Omar&#8217;s marriage history, as complicated as it is, is far more likely to cause her a public relations headache than a legal one. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/us-news/why-ilhan-omar-cant-be-kicked-out-of-the-us-for-marrying-brother-immigration-officials/">reported</a> that even if it were proved that Omar had been involved in a sham marriage to help Elmi secure a green card, the likely result would be the State Department barring Elmi from returning to the United States.
According to reports on Monday&#8217;s search, investigators are examining the original documents Omar&#8217;s father filed when the family first came to the United States in 1995.
&#8220;If there’s enough evidence that she or [her father] lied on her immigration application to become a United States citizen, whether it was one time or several times, the Trump administration could initiate a denaturalization process that would strip her of her citizenship,&#8221; a top immigration official told The Post.
Omar&#8217;s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, served as a colonel in the Somali Army under socialist dictator Siad Barre. In the late 1970s, he is documented to have served during the Ogaden War — and while soldiers and officials on both sides of that conflict have been accused of committing war crimes and abuse, Omar&#8217;s father has never been personally linked to those accusations.
Barre, a top general in the Somali military, had seized power in 1969 and implemented &#8220;scientific socialism.&#8221; Between 1987 and 1989, Barre led a <a href="https://macmillan.yale.edu/gsp/somalia-isaaq-genocide#:~:text=A%20campaign%20designed%20to%20depopulate,Solution%20to%20the%20Isaaq%20Problem'.">genocidal campaign</a> against the Isaaq clan — the Hargeisa Holocaust — that was meant to depopulate Somaliland. In addition to building minefields in civilian areas and indiscriminately bombing villages, Barre&#8217;s forces poisoned wells, strafed fleeing civilians, and used rape as a weapon of war.
The exact date that Omar&#8217;s father left Somali military service is unclear, but some reports indicate that his <a href="https://sahanjournal.com/remembering-minnesotans-lost-to-covid-19/he-was-loved-by-everyone-the-somali-community-remembers-nur-omar-mohamed-who-died-of-covid-19/">service ended</a> with the fall of Barre&#8217;s regime in 1991.
If he left out his service—or any other relevant information—when he filled out immigration papers for himself and his family, that could immediately raise questions about the validity of Omar&#8217;s citizenship.

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&#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; actor RJ Mitte has died at the age of 34.
Mitte&#8217;s death, reported by entertainment site TMZ and confirmed by a county official, was living in Brownsville, Texas, at the time of his death. The actor, according to that report, died by suicide. An investigation into his death is still ongoing.
Mitte played Walter White Jr. on the popular TV show, appearing in 56 episodes of the show that also starred &#8220;Malcolm in the Middle&#8221; alum Bryan Cranston. He also appeared in &#8220;The Oak Room&#8221; and &#8220;The Recall.&#8221;
“It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of beloved actor, philanthropist, and passionate disability rights advocate RJ Mitte,” a representative for Mitte said in a statement shared with <a href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rj-mitte-dead-breaking-bad-1236909451/">Variety</a>. “Drawing from his own experience living with cerebral palsy, Mitte brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion.”
Both Mitte and his &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221;character both lived with cerebral palsy, and Mitte used his platform to advocate for actors with disabilities.
&#8220;My character was written with someone with cerebral palsy. This that was from the beginning. That was always the case. My character Walt Jr. was based on a real person, a friend of (Breaking Badcreator) Vince Gilligan in college who had cerebral palsy, who used forearm crutches and sometime after passed away. So it really felt real playing this character and getting into the groove with this character,&#8221; Mitte said on &#8220;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rj-mitte-dead-breaking-bad-walter-white-jr-1236728210/">The Joe Vulpis Podcast</a>.&#8221;
The actor served as an ambassador for both United Cerebral Palsy and Shriners Children’s, and he was also the president of his own charity, the Mitte Foundation. The Mitte Foundation worked to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes about people living with disabilities.
Mitte was engaged to his long term girlfriend, Kennedy Suarez, who he&#8217;d been dating since 2018. He proposed on October 10, 2025, on her 30th birthday.
&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to have found my person, my partner in life who makes me want to be better, no matter what we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Mitte told People at the time. &#8220;Kennedy is my everything and I can&#8217;t wait to officially start our life together and see what adventures life takes us on next.&#8221;
Mitte&#8217;s <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/10/12/celebrity-news/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-made-final-public-appearance-days-before-death-at-34/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost">final public appearance</a> took place just over a week prior to his death.
If you or anyone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 or go to <a href="http://speakingofsuicide.com/resources" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources</a>.

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Trump administration officials have reportedly nicknamed the investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “World War Eleven,” a phrase that echoes the congresswoman’s viral gaffe about World War II, as federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., home Monday morning.
A senior Trump administration official <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/10/12/federal-agents-search-rep-ilhan-omars-dc-home/">told</a> the Washington Post that the investigation had accelerated in recent weeks. The probe has been nicknamed &#8220;World War Eleven&#8221; within the administration because of the uproar it could cause, according to the Post. 
The phrase recalls a resurfaced video of Omar mistakenly referring to World War II as “World War Eleven” during a Democratic news conference last year. Omar quickly corrected herself, saying “Oh, two,” and laughing.
Federal agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-raid-home-of-ilhan-omar-as-criminal-probe-expands">searched Omar’s Washington, D.C. residence</a> early Monday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. The Justice Department confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, had executed a judicially authorized search warrant but did not identify Omar or disclose the specific focus of the investigation.
“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice,” the department told The Daily Wire. “This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”
The investigation <a href="https://www.wsgw.com/ilhan-omars-d-c-home-searched-by-homeland-security-investigators-sources-say/">reportedly</a> centers on immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a child. Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee from Somalia in 1995 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000. She has repeatedly denied allegations of immigration fraud.
Omar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-responds-after-feds-raid-her-home">responded</a> to the search, accusing the administration of targeting her for political reasons. 
“Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” Omar wrote. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”
“I will not be silenced,” she added.
The search follows public comments from senior administration officials about an investigation into Omar’s immigration history. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last month that an investigation was ongoing.
White House border czar Tom Homan also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/homan-confirms-criminal-investigation-involving-ilhan-omar-says-knows-things-going">confirmed in September</a> that an &#8220;ongoing criminal investigation&#8221; into Omar was underway, though he declined to provide details.

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