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The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.” Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot. Reena Evers-Everette, executive director of the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute and daughter of the couple, said the family has been told the matter is under review, “but the final product has not been put out yet.” In 1963, Beckwith shot the civil rights leader in the back on the driveway of the Evers family home in northwest Jackson. It would take 31 more years before a Mississippi jury would convict Beckwith.

Penn State hockey star Gavin McKenna, the presumptive number one overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, has been charged with felony aggravated assault, according to court records. McKenna, 18, is also facing a misdemeanor charge of simple assault and summary charges of harassment and disorderly conduct engage in fighting. The charges were filed by State College Police on February 4, citing the alleged offense date as January 31, 2025, the same day as Penn State hockey’s Beaver Stadium game. According to the criminal complaint filed by Patrolman Lucas Sharer, officers were called to the Mount Nittany Medical Center that evening in relation to an alleged assault in downtown State College. There, a man was being treated for a broken jaw and was missing a tooth, police said. Police noted the man “could hardly speak” and had surgery Monday night that will require his jaw to be wired shut for approximately two weeks. Two witnesses with the victim told police McKenna allegedly punched the man in the face twice after “an exchange of words between them” and McKenna’s group in front of the Pugh Street Parking Garage in State College.

Law enforcement say the 45-year-old man was the ‘primary aggressor’ in the fight that went viral

Hours of public comment, dozens of speakers and hundreds of community members showed up to the Surprise City Council meeting Tuesday to voice their opinions on a recently purchased ICE warehouse.

The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.”

Six Palestine Action activists have been cleared of committing aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israeli defence firm’s UK site. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin were accused of threatening unlawful violence and using sledgehammers as weapons after a prison van was driven into Elbit Systems’ factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024. But after a trial at Woolwich crown court, south London, none were convicted of any offence. All six were acquitted of aggravated burglary, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and jurors found Rajwani, Rogers and Devlin not guilty of violent disorder. The jury deliberated for 36 hours and 34 minutes but could not reach verdicts for charges of criminal damage against any of the six defendants. This was in spite of all of the defendants, except Devlin, telling jurors they had entered the factory without permission and damaged Elbit’s equipment including computers and drones. Additionally, no verdict was reached in the allegation that Corner, 23, inflicted grievous bodily harm on police sergeant Kate Evans, or on the charges of violent disorder against Head, Corner and Kamio.

Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach provide a comprehensive critique of popularist calls for Democrats to moderate their positions in response to Republican gains in the 2024 U.S. election. Of course, one of the issues most frequently singled out for moderation is transgender rights. Within forty-eight hours of Trump’s reelection, Democratic congressmen Tom Suozzi and Seth Moulton spoke out against trans athletes (although Moulton has since walked back those comments). In laying the groundwork for his likely 2028 presidential campaign, California Governor Gavin Newsom has flirted with several far-right positions on trans youth, including banning transition until age twenty-six. Even prior to 2024, the New York Times, Matt Yglesias, and Ruy Teixeira—all highlighted in Bonica and Grumbach’s article as advocates for Democratic moderation—were promoting anti-trans talking points. But the notion that retreating from trans rights will benefit Democrats in future elections rests on three false assumptions. The first is that the current anti-trans backlash is the result of “activists going too far,” a trope that is levied against virtually every social justice movement. This framing allows opponents to cast the rolling back of rights as a “realignment” with public opinion and a return to the “natural order” of things. But that is not at all what has happened here. I’ve been involved in trans communities since the early 1990s, and during that entire time trans people have acted locally—in their schools, workplaces, and communities—to increase awareness and challenge discriminatory practices. The International Olympic Committee began allowing trans athletes to compete way back in 2004, and gender-affirming care for trans youth is now almost three decades old. These are not by any means “novel” or “radical” developments. What is new is that, starting around 2015—in the wake of increased trans visibility in the media (sometimes called the “transgender tipping point”) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell legalizing same-sex marriage—social conservatives began shifting their efforts toward targeting trans people instead. The attacks have since grown into a highly coordinated and well–funded movement that churns out both anti-trans and broader anti-LGBTQ legislation at unprecedented levels. This is the real reason why Republicans have become obsessed with “fairness in women’s sports,” “biological sex,” “social contagion,” “restrooms,” “grooming,” and other soundbites that didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news. To the Department of Homeland Security, “he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR.” That phrase appears in an internal report produced by DHS, the largest law enforcement agency in the country. As they see it, Patey—a young man accused of no crime and who looks like a random protester plucked off the streets of Minneapolis—is a domestic terrorist. In Patey’s apartment, Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Jesse Waters saw something sinister: an “Antifa safe house,” as they called it in multiple segments. This kind of idiocy is hardly unprecedented by the standards of cable news, of course; but the federal government is buying into the hysteria, too. Documents leaked to me show Patey and countless other American protesters have been branded as domestic terrorists. As a result, their private information is now being collected and stored in a DHS intelligence system shown below.

A North Carolina man is facing multiple felony charges after he broke into a Little Caesars after closing time and started making and selling pizzas, according to police. It happened Sunday, the day after a massive snow storm hit the state, and the suspect kept all the money for himself, the Kinston Police Department said in a Feb. 2 news release. An arrest was made after the suspect tried to break into the shop a second time, police said. “The Kinston Police Department ... responded to Little Caesars in reference to a breaking and entering. Upon arrival, officers were advised that 41-year-old Jonathon Hackett, a former employee, had unlawfully entered the business on two separate occasions,” police said. “During the first incident, Hackett entered the business, prepared pizzas, sold them to customers, and kept the proceeds for himself. During the second incident, Hackett again broke into the business while it was occupied by employees. Employees attempted to prevent Hackett from entering, which resulted in a physical altercation.”

Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.

A Douglas County Man is being held on a million dollars bail after a frightening shooting incident on I-5 last week.

The hack was resolved in a December update.

Over a decade after the maple syrup grading change, Grade A Dark is just not the same.

Organized crime in Mexico is tightening its grip on the vape market, a $1.5 billion industry

Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."

A battle has broken out between Paramount corporate and CBS News' news chief Bari Weiss over cutting ties with new contributor Peter Attia, TheWrap has learned.

A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown targeted only “crooks” has been arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey. Júnior Pena, whose full name is Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, declared his support for the US president in a recent video message to his hundreds of thousands of social media followers. “I [support] Donald Trump – I like the guy,” announced the South American TikToker and Instagrammer whose account purports to show “the reality of the United States” from a migrant’s perspective. In a previous video, Pena reportedly urged Brazilians to stay calm and not “despair” after reports that ICE agents were rounding up migrants, including Brazilians. “But they’re all crooks. The lot of them,” he falsely claimed of the migrants being seized. On Saturday, Pena was himself reportedly detained and sent to the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. One friend told the local newspaper the Brazilian Times that Pena had been taken into custody after missing a court hearing. The detainee’s lawyer, Andrew Lattarulo, was reportedly trying to resolve the situation and prevent him being transferred to another state.

Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.