[CBSnews] The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple, a historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968 , was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday.
[NYPOST] The father of a North Carolina college student who was shot in a ''random'' burglary earlier this month while she was staying with University of South Carolina students for the weekend was ''furious'' when he learned of the suspect's lengthy criminal history.
Logan Federico, a 22-year-old aspiring teacher from Waxhaw, was visiting friends at USC in Columbia, South Carolina, and staying at a house on Cypress Street on the evening of May 2 through May 3.
In the early morning hours of May 3, suspect Alexander Dickey, a 30-year-old ''career criminal,'' entered the home in the early morning, stole several credit and debit cards and fatally shot Logan in what Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook described as a ''random'' crime during a May 5 press conference.
''She was supposed to go down the night before, and plans got canceled — so she decided to do it on a Friday,'' Logan's father, Stephen Federico, told Fox News Digital. ''That's the thing that's just gut-wrenching. She wasn't even supposed to be there. She was supposed to be home Friday.''
On Saturday afternoon, Logan's mother, Melissa Federico, was at home cooking when two officers showed up at her door to tell her the news that Logan had been shot dead in Columbia. Stephen had been golfing with friends when his wife called.
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#1 The plan worked. They defunded the police.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-05-22 00:11
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I live in Columbia, and believe me when I tell you there has been no defunding of police here - if anything, their funding has gone up. The last year I see Federal numbers for is 2023, and we had 27 murders in Richland County (the stats cover the whole county, not just inside the boundaries of Columbia proper). 27 is 27 too many, but this one wasn't due to a lack of policing - a single feral criminal decided to get up in the middle of the night and rob a house at random. He got surprised and shot Miss Federico. The one consolation here is that this is South Carolina. He will die in prison, one way or the other.
[FoxNews] The shooting was reportedly not fatal as CIA closes front gate 'until further notice'
A woman was shot early Thursday morning by security guards outside the CIA's headquarters, NBC News reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The shooting was not fatal.
"Today, around 4:00am, patrol officers responded to the 900 block of Dolley Madison Blvd in McLean to assist CIA Police with traffic control following a non-fatal shooting on CIA property. FCPD officers are currently in the area providing traffic support while the CIA conducts its investigation. There are no road closures at this time," the Fairfax County Police Department said in a statement.
The CIA said in a post on X that the front gate to the agency's headquarters is closed and employees should use "alternate routes."
There is no known connection between the incident at the CIA and the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy workers in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night.
[BREITBART] Americans celebrating Memorial Day by hitting the road will likely be paying the cheapest gas prices since 2003.
GasBuddy, a fuel savings platform, said Tuesday that it forecasts the national average price of gasoline to be $3.08 per gallon on Memorial Day. That would make it the cheapest since 2021 in nominal terms. After adjusting for inflation, it would be the lowest since 2003.
This is not expected to be short-lived. Prices of gasoline are expected to average around $3.02 per gallon between Memorial Day and Labor Day, with prices falling below three dollars on some days.
That's likely to bring cheer to the 69 percent of Americans who plan on taking a road trip this summer.
''American road trip culture remains resilient,'' GasBuddy said in a news release announcing their 2025 Summer Travel Survey.
Last summer, the national average price of gasoline was $3.58 per gallon on Memorial Day. This year's lower price reflects increased oil production that has lowered crude oil prices. A barrel of Brent Crude, the global standard for oil prices, is currently priced at $65.07, down significantly from the $83.71 a year ago.
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Problem is, too many of us are not seeing our Retirement checks and SSA-benefits keeping up with even 1/3 of the estimated inflation and the constantly new taxes.
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“Under-control” inflation doesn’t mean a McDonald’s meal isn’t $10. Biden’s controllers screwed us in a way that can’t be unscrewed.
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Isn't so much inflation as gross devaluation of the dollar by the Fed and Treasury. The value of silver in a 1960s coin dollar is now worth $25 dollars. That 1960s McDonalds 15 cent hamburger, fries and small drink, totaled 45 cents, would be $11.50 in today's monopoly money. That $3.02 gallon of gas of today would be 13 cents back then.
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You could do a mathematical correlation between “stimulus” spending and inflation. The calculation would approach 1.00
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$2.60/gal in Maine at my local warehouse club. I'll take what I can get while I can. The long term outlook for the dollar is not good. Whoever was in charge these last 4 years screwed us good and proper. Fundamentally transformed you might say.
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Oh that's nice. Looks at 2.5% cost of living paycheck raise when inflation was 6%.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[NYPOST] The father of a North Carolina college student who was shot in a ''random'' burglary earlier this month while she was staying with University of South Carolina students for the weekend was ''furious'' when he learned of the suspect's lengthy criminal history.
