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King Charles’ Secret AI Summit: Globalist Royal Plots Tech Takeover Behind Closed Doors [WATCH]

Mike Steger argued that King Charles III’s private meeting with leading artificial intelligence executives represents something larger than a discussion about emerging technology, claiming the gathering fits into a longstanding effort to concentrate political and technological power in the hands of an international elite.

“King Charles planned a secretive meeting with top AI executives for today, Thursday, before the entire AI story blew up on American headlines,” Steger said.

“King Charles is not a king of a nation; he represents an entirely different kind of government. You might say a government of interests, not people.”

King Charles hosted executives from major AI companies at Dumfries House in Scotland, including representatives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, for discussions about the future and risks of artificial intelligence.

Steger characterized the gathering as evidence of what he called an effort to establish greater centralized control over AI.

“Nowhere are King Charles’s interests in global control more evident than in AI, which is why he happens to be hosting a major private secret summit off the record with AI leaders,” Steger said.

He traced what he described as the intellectual origins of that effort to British writer H.G. Wells and his 1928 book, “The Open Conspiracy: Blueprints for a World Revolution.”

“This conspiracy, though, is not secret. It’s been an open British plot since 1928, when H.G. Wells proposed eradicating the nation-state for one-world governance,” Steger said.

Steger said artificial intelligence could develop in two fundamentally different directions: one that expands individual creativity and economic freedom, or another that places technology under the control of a small group of powerful institutions.

“AI is a bigger factor in who rules the world than many might imagine,” Steger said.

“It can either unleash the creative talents of our people and advance human freedom, or become the dystopian nightmare King Charles has spent most of his life helping to create.”

Steger then laid out a timeline involving the King’s summit, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and the growing public debate over potential risks from advanced AI.

He said reports about the gathering appeared before Coxon publicly raised concerns about AI, followed by Amodei’s essay calling for slower development and stronger oversight.

“The stage had been set for the King’s private summit,” Steger said.

Steger also pointed to President Donald Trump’s response to the growing debate.

Trump publicly dismissed warnings about AI and data centers as another political “hoax” and argued that opponents of rapid AI development were acting against American interests.

Steger interpreted the sequence of events as political rather than coincidental.

“So if anyone thinks this is just random or happened to evolve naturally, welcome to fifth-generation political warfare,” Steger said.

“This is a coordinated attack on President Trump and his MAGA revolution, and its origins are in Buckingham Palace.”

He contrasted that approach with Silicon Valley figures who oppose slowing AI development, arguing that the central disagreement is not merely about technology but about the structure of society.

“This isn’t two different views of technology,” Steger said.

“It’s really between two different views of how human society should be organized, and the reason why is clear. It’s not about AI; it’s about a religion of doom.”

Steger connected the current AI debate to earlier arguments about global governance, population control, and the decline of nation-states.

He cited Wells as an important figure in that intellectual tradition and claimed the long-term goal was to transfer effective governing power away from voters.

“Don’t abolish the nation-states by decree, absorb them, supersede them, function by function, agency by agency, treaty by treaty, until one day the government that people voted for doesn’t actually govern anything that matters,” Steger said.

“Sound familiar?”

According to Steger, education and technological expertise are central to that model because limiting access to advanced systems could create a permanent divide between ordinary people and a credentialed technical class.

“So then, without access, over time a gap develops, and the credentialed class becomes the only ones capable of actually ruling because they’re the only ones that know how to use the technology, a kind of techno-feudalism,” Steger said.

He argued that artificial intelligence makes that dispute especially important because control over sophisticated technology could determine who holds economic and political power.

“No vote required, no decree needed, just the slow and permanent transfer of real control to whoever holds the technical keys,” Steger said.

Steger contrasted that vision with what he called the traditional American approach to technological development.

He pointed to railroads, automobiles, nuclear power, electricity, aviation, cell phones and the internet as examples of technologies that became broadly useful when ordinary people gained access to them.

“The American system believes in integrating the most advanced aspects of science and technology into everyday life,” Steger said.

He argued that people should be able to experiment freely with AI rather than having access controlled primarily through professional credentials or centralized institutions.

“Let the American people decide how to use AI, how to become more productive, more creative, and more intelligent,” Steger said.

“But you can’t learn to swim if you don’t get wet.”

Steger said the United States should focus on expanding the infrastructure necessary to make AI widely available rather than restricting its use.

“We need to open up the technology so it’s not a system of control, and build the infrastructure so it’s available to everyone,” Steger said.

He characterized the dispute as a clash between centralized technological management and decentralized American innovation, arguing that expanded industrial production would allow AI to become a tool for economic growth rather than political control.

“The British system wants to control the technology, to keep us subservient, and ultimately create a new ruling class, just as H. G. Wells recommended,” Steger said.

He concluded by arguing that the development of artificial intelligence should accompany a broader revival in American manufacturing, production and technological experimentation.

“With the revival of real production, AI will become a greater tool for the good,” Steger said.

“By creating a new era of growth, more people will come to know the fruits of real political freedom, and they’ll have more time to contemplate that even greater glory of God. That’s the hallmark of the true American system.”

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Legendary Historian Answers How Donald Trump Will Be Remembered in 50 Years [WATCH]

Victor Davis Hanson said President Donald Trump’s long-term historical legacy could ultimately be defined by whether his administration permanently changes the political direction of the United States, reshapes Europe and alters the balance of power with China and the Middle East.

During an exchange with Glenn Beck, Hanson was asked to look decades into the future and identify what historians might consider the defining accomplishments of Trump’s presidency.

“You’re a historian. Put yourself 50 years out. The biggest accomplishments of this presidency, what will they say they were, and how is he remembered 50 years from now?” Beck asked.

Hanson said one of the biggest potential achievements would be halting the progressive political project in the United States.

“I think, let’s just say, three or four of them. I think he stopped the progressive project, and we are not going to go down that socialist pathway. I think he stopped it,” Hanson said.

He added that political battles would continue, but argued Trump had given opponents of progressive policies confidence that those policies could be defeated.

“think it’s going to be there’s battles to be fought, but he gave people the encouragement that they can be defeated,” Hanson said.

“And their hysteria exhibits that they thought that they knew they were vulnerable because their agenda was contrary to human nature.”

Hanson then turned to Europe, arguing that Trump’s impact extended well beyond the United States.

“And then second, I think he shocked Europe,” Hanson said.

He recalled Trump’s appearance at Notre-Dame and described the reception as evidence that European leaders, despite their criticism of him, recognized the political force of his approach.

“They made fun of him, but when he was inaugurated, he went into Notre-Dame. He was like that line out of Shakespeare, a colossus, and all those people were clamoring to get near him,” Hanson said.

According to Hanson, European governments have increasingly adopted policies resembling Trump’s positions on immigration, energy and defense.

“And they were basically saying, We hate you, but you gave us the inspiration to close our borders, to deport people, to look toward fossil fuels, to rearm, and to open up,” Hanson said.

He pointed to Sweden, Denmark, and Eastern Europe as examples and argued that governments in Britain and France were facing instability while other countries were moving in a similar direction.

“And that’s what Sweden, that’s what Denmark, that’s what Eastern Europe is doing. The governments that are socialist in Britain and France are shaky. Germany, Italy, all of these countries are following our model in a way,” Hanson said.

Hanson also predicted that Canada could eventually experience a political shift.

“I think Canada will, too. I think Carney’s going to blow it, and there’ll be a change there,” he said.

From there, Hanson identified two larger geopolitical tests that he believes could determine whether Trump’s legacy becomes truly historic.

“There’s two great obstacles: Can he stop the Chinese agenda to dominate the world, and can he end the idea that we have to be permanently in the Middle East because it’s a dysfunctional, pathological place?” Hanson said.

He said Trump was attempting both tasks despite what he described as limited assistance.

“And he’s trying on both fronts. He’s not getting a lot of help,” Hanson said.

Beck responded, “Well there’s an understatement.”

“Yes. Yes,” Hanson replied.

Hanson said the goals were enormous but could fundamentally change how Trump is remembered if they succeed.

“But those are ambitious goals,” Hanson said. “If he pulls the Middle East off, and Iran that government falls, Yeah. and he can outpower China, that will be historic.”

Beck responded, “It’s game-changing.”

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Gaffe-Prone Seattle Socialist Mayor Hijacks Police Chief’s Answer in Cringe Interview [WATCH]

Seattle socialist Mayor Katie Wilson has landed in another awkward public appearance, this time cutting into a response from Seattle Police Assistant Chief Nicole Powell during an interview about the city’s gun violence reduction plan, as reported by The New York Post.

Wilson, a Democrat and self-identified socialist already known for gaffe-prone interviews, appeared alongside Powell and Amy Barden, chief of Seattle’s Community Assisted Response and Engagement Department. The interview quickly produced another uncomfortable moment for the mayor.

KOMO News reporter Chris Daniels asked Powell whether new Flock-type surveillance cameras being installed around the city could help investigators with Seattle’s unsolved cases.

Powell hesitated, looked down, and twice began trying to answer before Wilson interjected.

“Cameras are obviously a useful tool, right? We’ve seen in the ‘Bite of Seattle’ shooting there’s been camera footage from businesses around Seattle Center, we have cameras at Seattle Center, those cameras have been useful tools in solving crime, there’s no doubt about that,” said Wilson.

Powell appeared visibly uncomfortable after the interruption. She chuckled, gestured toward Wilson and repeatedly looked away from the camera as the mayor took control of the answer.

Daniels continued pressing the officials and asked, “What’s going to be the metric of success?” Powell looked toward Wilson, leaving the mayor to respond as her voice cracked slightly.

“Ultimately, we want to see zero homicides; we want to see fewer homicides, and we want to see fewer guns shot,” Wilson answered.

Powell nodded while the mayor spoke and again looked toward the side, away from the camera.

The reporter was not finished and asked, “Would either of you like to answer that question?” while gesturing toward Powell and Barden.

Barden quickly stepped in but directed her response away from the surveillance camera issue.

“From my side, in addition to shots fired and homicides, you want to look at referrals in the services and whether or not somebody is making meaningful improvement in their life,” said Barden.

After Barden finished, Daniels returned the floor to Powell. The assistant police chief laughed before answering, “Just to piggyback, taking a holistic approach, this strategy works.”

“It is proven in other cities like this, and it takes all of us,” Powell added while looking back toward Wilson and Barden.

The exchange unfolded amid continuing debate over the expansion of surveillance cameras in Seattle and other cities.

Wilson opposed expanding the city’s surveillance camera network during her campaign last year. In September, she said, “Turning on more cameras won’t magically make our neighborhoods safer. But it will certainly make our neighbors more vulnerable,” according to The Urbanist.

After becoming mayor, however, Wilson adopted a different tone.

She announced a pause on further expansion pending an audit of privacy and data governance practices, while allowing cameras already operating to remain in use.

Wilson said the city would rely on the audit’s findings when deciding whether and how to continue the expansion.

During the KOMO News interview, Daniels pressed her to provide a date for that decision.

“I’m going to sound like a broken record on this, but we’ve been conducting this audit of our data security and storage and privacy practices. We’re expecting the results of that audit around the end of this month and so, at the end of this month, we’ll be making that information public, and then I’ll be making a decision about that expansion,” Wilson answered.

The uncomfortable exchange quickly drew attention online. The popular conservative account “End Wokeness” called it an “incredible moment” and highlighted Powell’s nervous reaction when she was asked about the cameras.

“Seattle Assistant Police Chief Nicole Powell gets asked if turning back on Seattle CCTV cameras would help; she looks nervously at Mayor KatieWilson (who turned off the CCTV). Look at the face she gives the camera,” the account wrote.

Political advocacy group Future 42 also criticized the exchange. “Daniels asks the SPD Chief sitting beside the mayor if the crime cameras ‘could be a tool to help in any of these unsolved cases.’

The Chief’s facial expression and silence say it all, which is then followed by Katie Wilson interjecting that cameras are in fact a ‘useful tool’, even though she personally made the decision to turn them off,” the group wrote.

Future 42 added, “What else can we say, except Katie Wilson still has no idea what she is doing as Mayor of Seattle?”

The online mockery marked yet another rough on-camera moment for Seattle’s socialist mayor.

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Iran Hardens Deeply Buried Nuclear Site as Trump Warns Tehran Not to “Get Cute” [WATCH]

Fresh satellite imagery is drawing new attention to Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply buried site near the Natanz nuclear complex that President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike, as reported by Fox News.

The latest activity includes added protection around tunnel entrances as Tehran continues work at sensitive facilities.

The Institute for Science and International Security said imagery from Sept. 11 shows earthen roadblocks still blocking roads that lead to the mountain’s western tunnel portals.

The continued restrictions support the institute’s assessment that the complex is not being used for normal operations.

At the same time, the institute assessed that valuable equipment or materials remain inside. Additional soil has been placed over one western tunnel portal and a nearby group of entrances that were first built in 2007.

According to the institute, the new soil increases the amount of earth protecting the entrances and helps harden them against aerial bombardment.

The moves are the latest signs that Tehran is not exactly leaving its sensitive underground infrastructure exposed.

Trump addressed the activity last week while speaking with reporters. “We notice there’s a little activity at Pickaxe,” Trump said.

“I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard.”

The president also discussed Pickaxe Mountain during a July 28 “Fox & Friends” interview highlighted by the White House.

Trump said the United States was watching the site closely and knew “exactly what’s going on,” adding that Washington could “take out Pickaxe” if diplomacy failed.

Pickaxe Mountain is roughly two kilometers from Natanz and contains several tunnel entrances leading into a deeply buried underground complex.

Construction started in 2020 after sabotage damaged an advanced centrifuge assembly facility at Natanz.

Iranian officials later said a replacement underground facility was being built for advanced centrifuge production.

Analysts estimate that parts of the complex could be buried at least 100 meters beneath the mountain, although Iran has said there is no nuclear activity there.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that some analysts believe the chance for a straightforward strike may already have passed.

The site’s depth presents an obvious military challenge.

“The window to strike Pickaxe Mountain, according to some, has already expired because the regime has dug an underground nuclear facility several times deeper than Fordow,” Ben Taleblu said. Even so, he argued that Washington retains options if destroying the underground complex proves difficult.

“Washington can do what it’s traditionally been able to do with sites that are underground, hardened and fortified, and that’s to bury their entrances and raise the political cost to the Islamic Republic of being able to dig out,” he said.

“While there may not be the perfect munition just yet, Uncle Sam always has a bigger bomb,” Ben Taleblu added. “And in the meantime, what they can do is show that they mean business by burying the entrances.”

The Pickaxe Mountain findings arrived alongside signs of reconstruction at Taleghan 2, another sensitive Iranian facility at the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran.

The institute said Iran was “rapidly moving forward” with the work.

Vantor Technologies imagery from Sept. 13 showed that Iran had erected a tarp over the destroyed hardened facility, concealing work beneath it from satellite or aerial observation.

Dump trucks, bulldozers, concrete equipment, and cranes were also active around the location.

The institute said Iran constructed new concrete reinforcement that could provide additional protection from aerial attack.

Taleghan 2 was struck by Israel in October 2024 and again in March 2026 after Iran rebuilt and hardened the facility.

The developments coincided with another clash over Iran at the United Nations.

Russia and China vetoed a Security Council resolution authored by the U.S. that would have extended the mandate of the Panel of Experts supporting the 1737 Iran Sanctions Committee until September 2027.

The resolution received 11 votes in favor, while Pakistan and Somalia abstained.

The panel investigates alleged sanctions violations and reports on implementation, but Russia and China reject the legal and procedural validity of restoring sanctions through the snapback mechanism.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz said Washington considers the sanctions legally restored and expects participating countries to enforce them.

He also said the Iranian regime cannot have a nuclear weapon, while noting that sanctioned businesses and individuals may attempt to evade restrictions by changing names and corporate structures.

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Abdul El-Sayed Backer Hasan Piker Unleashes Vile Claim: America is Worse Than al-Qaeda [WATCH]

Radical communist influencer Hasan Piker is doubling down on his attacks against the United States while remaining closely associated in the source with Michigan Senate Democrat candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Piker is described as one of El-Sayed’s main cheerleaders, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.

In a new Axios interview, Piker claimed that America, measured “pound for pound,” conducts more terror around the world than al-Qaeda.

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The broadside adds fresh scrutiny to El-Sayed, who has repeatedly faced demands to reject Piker’s comments.

Axios National Political Correspondent Alex Thompson confronted Piker with an earlier statement. Thompson asked, “You once said that America is the top dog in terrorism .”

Thompson then made the comparison explicit, asking, “Do you think America then is worse than al-Qaeda?” Piker did not retreat from the premise.

“Pound for pound, as far as the number of deaths, yes, we have caused tremendous terror all around the world,” Piker responded.

His answer squarely placed America above al-Qaeda under the terms Thompson presented.

Piker continued, “I think that that is not only terror that we are waging on regular civilians in nations in the periphery, but it’s also having consequences on ourselves. It’s, it’s having dramatic consequences on the home front.”

Piker offered Minab as his example: “One, one clear example of this is what we did in Minab, right? There’s no distinction between blowing up a school, triple tapping it with Tomahawk missiles.”

He continued, “If you’re killing 140 schoolgirls, that is an act of terror. This doesn’t mean that all Americans are terrorists, but the reality of the matter is we have to create an environment of accountability to ensure things like that never happen again.”

The dispute follows Piker’s earlier assertion that “America deserved 9/11.”

El-Sayed has repeatedly been asked to disavow that remark, but the source says he defended the comment as taken “out of context” while citing “gocha politics” and “cancel culture” during the controversy.

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El-Sayed answered, “Of course. Of course, it was a dumb statement, and of course, I think Hassan himself would say that was a dumb statement.”

He continued, “He disavowed it. So yes, America didn’t deserve 9/11, but you know, to sit here and play gotcha politics with dumb things somebody said out of context that they disavowed themselves to say, ‘Oh well, what does that mean about what you think?’”

El-Sayed’s opponent, Michigan GOP Senatorial Candidate Mike Rogers, spoke at the Republican National Committee’s first midterm convention.

Rogers said El-Sayed had raised money from Islamic terror organizations, according to the source.

White House advisor Stephen Miller also attacked El-Sayed’s association with Piker and his fundraising.

Miller said, “The Democrat Party has embraced the platform of individuals who fundamentally hate America and hate Americans.”

Miller continued, “Abdul El Sayed in Michigan campaigned with, sought the endorsement of, and promoted, along with Bernie Sanders, a man named Hasan Piker who is the new consultant and strategist for the Democrat Party. He is the man they are leaning on to choose for their policies…”

Miller then returned to Piker’s earlier statement.

“Hasan Piker said that American and Americans deserve 9/11.”

“I can’t believe we’re having this conversation! 25 years after 9/11 and you have Democrats preaching hatred for America,” Miller said.

“The Democrat Party fundamentally has sided with the jihadists in the war on terror. That’s where we are right now,” Miller told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

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Lindsay Clancy’s Husband Reveals Heartbreaking Posthumous Pleas to His Children [WATCH]

Patrick Clancy has revealed that he still speaks to his three deceased children, asking them to help him endure the pain of losing them.

The deeply personal disclosure came in a clip from his first interview since the mistrial of his former wife, Lindsay Clancy.

“I talk to them,” Patrick told CBS correspondent Ross Douthat in the clip airing Thursday. When Douthat asked what he says to his children, Patrick answered: “‘Help me.’ All the time.”

Lindsay Clancy, now 36, admitted that she strangled the couple’s three children in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.

The children were Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan.

The former delivery nurse faced a murder trial that drew intense attention across the country.

That trial ended with an eleven-to-one hung jury after a single holdout declined to vote for her acquittal.

Lindsay’s lawyers did not dispute that she killed the children.

Instead, they argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore could not be held accountable for her actions.

Jurors deliberated for more than 38 hours across seven days before concluding they could not reach a verdict.

They then notified Plymouth Judge William Sullivan that their deliberations had failed to produce the required agreement.

Patrick, 38, remained stoic when he took the witness stand during the closely watched proceedings.

His testimony described Lindsay as a loving mother before the deaths of their children.

He recalled that she would “make up songs” with the children and prepare special meals for them, including green eggs and ham.

Those memories offered a painful glimpse of family life before the three children were killed.

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Since the trial began, Patrick has faced what his lawyer described as a relentless campaign of threats and misinformation.

Patrick remarried in April and now lives in New York, but the attacks surrounding the case have continued.

His lawyer, Howard Cooper, said Patrick and his family have been targeted by people spreading claims that Patrick was involved in the children’s deaths.

Cooper sharply condemned the campaign and the people promoting it through social media.

“Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign,” Cooper told Boston 25 News.

His statement portrayed the attacks as an escalating effort built around false accusations and personal destruction.

“This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims.”

Cooper also left open the possibility that legal action could be pursued against those responsible for spreading the accusations.

No specific legal proceeding against those people was identified, but the warning made clear that the family’s lawyer was not dismissing the campaign as harmless internet chatter.

Patrick’s interview now puts his grief in his own words after the wrenching trial and the public storm surrounding it.

His answer about speaking to Cora, Dawson, and Callan was brief, but it exposed the burden he continues to carry.

The interview clip is scheduled to air Thursday, with the full conversation set to be broadcast Sunday night on “60 Minutes.”

It marks Patrick’s first interview since the mistrial and gives him a public opportunity to speak about his children, the loss, and the pain that remains.

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Heroic San Diego Bystanders Chase Down Suspected Tesla Thief After Woman is Struck [WATCH]

A group of good Samaritans sprang into action after a suspected car thief allegedly drove a stolen Tesla through a crowded pedestrian walkway in San Diego, striking a woman and leaving her seriously injured.

Video captured citizens chasing down and tackling the fleeing suspect.

Juan Antonio Gonzaba, 39, was seen abandoning the Tesla and sprinting through a parking lot following the boardwalk incident. Police told multiple local media outlets that the vehicle had been stolen.

Bystander Alex Srour quickly joined the pursuit, chasing Gonzaba through the parking lot.

Video shows Srour pushing the suspect while both men were running, causing Gonzaba to fall to the ground and bringing the foot chase to a dramatic end.

Srour recorded the incident using a pair of smart glasses he was wearing at the time.

The footage documented both the dangerous drive through the pedestrian area and the citizens’ pursuit of Gonzaba after he fled the Tesla.

“I hear somebody behind me just scream like, ‘Watch out.’ And then I look and there’s like a Tesla just barreling at me going like 70 miles an hour,” Srour told KABC-TV.

Srour said he was sideswiped as Gonzaba allegedly careened through the pedestrian boardwalk in the Tesla.

The vehicle struck Srour’s bicycle and knocked him away from its path as people scrambled amid the unexpected danger.

“He hit my bike, and it like pushed me really, it like launched me off to the side,” Srour told KABC.

The bystander was nevertheless able to pursue Gonzaba after the suspect left the vehicle and attempted to escape through the parking lot.

“People don’t expect a car to come through the boardwalk like it’s just not normal,” Srour added.

His account matched the startling video, which showed the Tesla moving through an area intended for pedestrians before the chase unfolded.

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Gonzaba allegedly struck a woman, 25, during the incident.

Prosecutors told KNSD-TV that she was transported to a hospital with a fractured spine, broken ribs and a cut requiring 20 stitches.

Police charged Gonzaba with assault with a deadly weapon, hit-and-run and auto theft in connection with the incident, according to the San Diego Sheriff’s Office.

The allegations place the suspect at the center of both the dangerous boardwalk drive and the attempted escape captured on video.

Gonzaba pleaded not guilty to all charges during his arraignment, KNSD reported.

The case will proceed with Gonzaba contesting the allegations while prosecutors pursue the charges connected to the stolen Tesla and the injured woman.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that Gonzaba could face up to 24 years in prison if he is convicted on all charges.

He remained in custody following the incident and the filing of the criminal case.

Gonzaba is being held without bail at the San Diego Central Jail, according to KNSD.

Prosecutors noted during the proceedings that he has an extensive criminal history, the outlet reported.

Images from the scene showed the Tesla that Gonzaba allegedly stole and drove through the pedestrian boardwalk.

Additional footage showed Gonzaba on the ground after citizens who witnessed the dangerous episode chased him through the parking lot.

The citizens’ response turned a chaotic scene into a swift apprehension after the suspect allegedly injured a woman and fled.

Srour’s pursuit, recorded through his smart glasses, provided a close view of bystanders refusing to stand aside as Gonzaba ran.

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ABC, CBS, and NBC Lionize Lindsay Clancy, Savage Juror Who Voted to Convict Her

ABC, CBS, and NBC showered Lindsay Clancy with predominantly positive coverage after her widely televised murder case ended in a mistrial, according to a Media Research Center analysis.

Meanwhile, the networks delivered overwhelmingly hostile treatment to the lone juror who insisted Clancy was guilty.

Clancy, a Massachusetts woman who strangled her three children to death in 2023, faced a criminal trial that ended with a hung jury in early September.

MRC analysts examined 19 segments aired by the three networks from September 8 through September 13.

The analysis found that nearly three-quarters of evaluative statements about Clancy on CBS and NBC were positive.

CBS registered 72% positive coverage, while NBC reached 71%.

ABC was less extreme, but its presentation of Clancy still tilted clearly in her favor.

The network’s coverage was 54% positive, according to the analysis.

Much of that favorable material came from interviews with jurors after the trial.

All three networks repeatedly aired clips featuring sweeping praise for Clancy and her relationship with her children.

“Everything proved that she loved her children,” one Clancy juror said on the September 8 edition of NBC Nightly News.

Another juror offered similar praise during the September 11 edition of CBS Mornings.

“[The witnesses] all described her as an amazing mother… We saw that in every picture that was taken in the house on the night that this happened. Everywhere you looked, there was just love,” the juror said.

CBS journalists also provided Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, with a friendly national platform.

During a September 9 CBS Mornings interview, co-hosts Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell allowed Reddington to criticize the police investigation and shift attention away from his client.

When Reddington attempted to deflect blame from Clancy, King interjected: “I think people don’t understand about postpartum psychosis.”

O’Donnell later asked him, “Last week you called it a horrible investigation, and said it was not an investigation. What do you believe was the single biggest failure?”

The treatment of the holdout juror moved in the opposite direction.

Other jurors were invited to air their grievances about the one person who voted for guilt, and the coverage grew more hostile after NBC10 Boston learned his identity.

On September 11, NBC10 published allegations concerning the juror’s past dating to 2021.

The report included a dismissed domestic violence charge, a claim that his mother called him “evil,” and information that he had been late with rent payments.

ABC moved quickly to amplify NBC10’s investigation.

World News Tonight aired a full segment about the juror’s alleged misconduct on September 11, before NBC carried its own nationally televised report the next morning on Today.

CBS was the only network that did not cover NBC10’s report about the holdout juror.

Even so, MRC found that CBS coverage of him was 80% negative.

NBC’s final tally was even more lopsided, with 98% negative coverage of the juror.

That figure consisted of 50 negative statements and only one positive statement, while ABC’s coverage reached 96.5% negative.

The episode was not NBC’s first controversy involving jurors in a closely watched criminal trial.

During Kyle Rittenhouse’s 2021 murder trial, a freelance MSNBC producer was caught following a van transporting several jurors.

Police stopped and ticketed the producer after he drove through a stoplight.

The judge then banned NBC and MSNBC personnel from the courthouse for the remainder of the trial.

Across all three networks, Clancy received an aggregate 64.6% positive coverage rating.

The juror who voted to convict her received 94.7% negative coverage, making the networks four times more critical of him than of Clancy since September 8.

The analysis also found that only 12 of the 19 segments, or 63%, clearly explained why Clancy had been placed on trial.

The networks found ample time to praise Clancy and investigate a juror, yet more than one-third of their segments failed to clearly provide that basic fact.

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Bombshell House Report Accuses ActBlue of Massive Fraudulent Donation Cover Up [WATCH]

Three House committees have released an interim staff report accusing ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform, of failing to prevent illegal foreign political contributions.

The House Judiciary Committee, House Administration Committee, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee presented the findings after investigating the platform’s fraud prevention practices for two years.

According to the report, ActBlue changed its fraud policy twice during the 2024 presidential campaign.

The committees said the platform adopted “more lenient” standards that allowed money from foreign donors and other suspicious sources to flow into United States political campaigns.

Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that lawyers for ActBlue warned that its chief executive had given potentially misleading responses to Republican investigators.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also filed a lawsuit accusing the organization of allowing foreign donations and lying about its donation practices.

Several ActBlue staffers pleaded the Fifth when called to testify before Congress.

More recent reporting also revealed that an elderly Michigan woman appeared to have made 15,000 donations totaling more than $150,000 through ActBlue to various candidates, including Abdul El-Sayed.

The woman lives in a trailer and relies on a fixed income. She denied making those donations, although she acknowledged that she had sent some money to Democrats.

The committees found that ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones may have misled Congress about the platform’s process for reviewing foreign contributions.

The report said ActBlue appeared to be “knowing and willful” in accepting those contributions and also accused the organization of whistleblower retaliation.

New information obtained by the committees portrayed ActBlue’s approach to fraud prevention as “unserious.”

That included failed policies supposedly designed to “prevent” illegal and fraudulent contributions.

The report also examined a “passport verification process” that it described as an “ineffective security method.”

According to the findings, that process did not require donors to provide a valid United States passport number.

Fraud prevention analysts were allegedly told to “give the donor the benefit of the doubt” and ignore red flags involving donations with foreign indicators.

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Those instructions favored accepting questionable contributions rather than treating the warning signs as grounds for rejection.

The report said ActBlue employees were often instructed to accept donations they previously had rejected because of signs that they could be illegal foreign contributions.

That practice placed the burden on analysts to establish fraud with certainty before keeping suspicious money out.

One employee said that a donor who “has a few red flags, such as IP/billing mismatch and a concerning IP provider name, a foreign credit card, an odd email domain, and [is] connected to other rejected users via browser fingerprint,” should be accepted because ActBlue “can’t say for sure that this is fraud.”

An analyst separately reported “an odd pattern of small donations to the [Kamala] Harris campaign using prepaid cards.”

Another ActBlue employee nevertheless said that the donation was “good to accept.”

The report concluded, “American elections belong to American citizens. ActBlue, one of the largest online political contribution platforms, maintains unserious fraud-prevention practices that allow illegal foreign donations in U.S. elections. The Committees have been conducting oversight ofActBlue’s lax fraud-prevention practices since 2024. This third interim report presents new information about ActBlue’s unserious approach to fraud prevention.”

The committees also said that “internal logs show how ActBlue maintains a culture that instructs fraud analysts to err on the side of accepting questionable foreign donations.”

That allegation goes beyond a few isolated transactions and points directly at the platform’s internal practices.

Federal law prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to American elections.

As ActBlue moved billions of dollars into political campaigns, it had a responsibility to take indications of foreign or fraudulent activity seriously and comply with federal law.

The committees allege that ActBlue instead weakened safeguards, loosened guidelines, gave questionable donors the benefit of the doubt, and encouraged employees to find reasons to approve flagged contributions.

Congress, regulators, and ActBlue now face the question of how much questionable money reached American campaigns and who will be held accountable.


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