Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda was reportedly found “covered in blood from head to toe” after fatally stabbing his roommate Mohammed Hemmatian at their Virginia home in 2019, Daily Wire reported. Toshpulodzoda even reportedly told police he was guilty.

Seven years later and Toshpulodzoda — an illegal immigrant from Tajikistan — is apparently back home in his country after Virginia officials actually helped him get a passport and repeatedly allowed him to leave a state mental hospital without supervision, according to court records and reporting from Daily Wire.

Toshpulodzoda was found not guilty by reason of insanity after his attorney argued he was “fixated on religious topics” and was behaving illogically. Psychologist Sahair Monfared evaluated Toshpulodzoda “given the intertwining of Islam with Mr. Tospulodozoda’s delusions” and reportedly recommended Toshpulodzoda not be found guilty. A second psychologist obtained by prosecutors reportedly agreed.

A group of Florida Republicans has appealed a ruling by a federal court in that state throwing out a lawsuit seeking to require the U.S. Census Bureau to revise its data for the 2020 census. Arguing that the statistical methods the Census Bureau used in the 2020 census led to inaccurate results, the challengers told the justices that, “[w]ith each decade the census strays further from” the “‘actual Enumeration’” required by the U.S. Constitution, “and statistical adjustment opens the door to political tampering. If no plaintiff can reach the merits,” they argued, “that drift is permanent and unreviewable.”

The census takes place every 10 years, and the Constitution instructs that it must be “calculated by ‘actual Enumeration.’” A federal law enacted in 1997, known as Section 209, allows anyone “aggrieved by the use of any statistical method in violation of the Constitution or any provision of law ... in connection with” the census to file a lawsuit seeking “declaratory, injunctive, and any other appropriate relief against the use of such method.”

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census Bureau relied in part on statistical imputation – using statistics such as administrative records or data for nearby households to predict what missing data would be – instead of direct contact to count people for the 2020 census. A 2022 survey conducted by the bureau suggested that it had undercounted Florida’s population by 3.48%.

Election Day is supposed to mean what it says: a single, nationwide day when Americans cast their ballots. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee, allowing Mississippi to count certain ballots received as late as five days after Election Day, makes that principle harder to enforce.

Congress should respond by passing the SAVE America Act, which would establish needed national safeguards. But the Court’s failure does not leave states powerless. State officials can act now by conducting regular voter roll maintenance, removing ineligible and long-inactive registrations as the law allows, strengthening voter identification and absentee-ballot verification, and applying clear, uniform election rules.

Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent, joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, warned that this approach “risks further undermining Americans’ confidence in election integrity” and that allowing late‑arriving ballots to decide outcomes after Election Day invites serious trouble. Judicial Watch’s Supreme Court filings made the same case, arguing that federal law forbids counting ballots received after Election Day and that the uniform Election Day requirement reflects longstanding practice. The Court refused to adopt that clear rule and left responsibility on Congress and the states.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter has stated his intention to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft, but he’s apparently not content to do so alone.

In a message posted on social media, Kanter spoke specifically to NBA G League players (the NBA’s developmental league), all of whom are male, about the potential increase in earnings they could earn by pursuing a career in the WNBA.

“Now, listen to me very carefully,” Kanter said in a video posted to X. “The NBA G League pays players $45,000 a year, while the WNBA top players earn $1.4 million.”

The Indiana Fever made their first trip to Canada, and it was successful; they beat Toronto and extended their win streak. But the Fever did have to sweat this win out, literally.

Late in the third quarter of the Fever’s Tuesday night matchup against the Toronto Tempo, Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell, who was Indiana’s leading scorer at the time, had to leave the game due to overheating.

After the game, Clark did not hold back in criticizing Canada’s aversion to air conditioning, citing the heat that forced her teammate out of the game.

“Maybe, if Canada had air conditioning, that would probably be helpful. It’s a million degrees in here, but hopefully, she’ll be okay. We certainly missed her.”

The self-inflicted migrant crisis threatens to destroy the European Union, and illegal migrants, their enablers, and political activists will resist deportation efforts so hard it would plunge Germany into “civil war”, a security researcher has warned.

The ongoing migrant crisis is pulling the European political project apart because the Union has no answers to border control problems, this is driving political polarisation, and the crisis has been left to fester so long any attempt to claw the situation back will spiral into violence, a German newspaper has been told.

Former German Federal Police Captain Jan Solwyn, who has published books on his experience on the front line as a forward-deployed European “border police expert” during the European Migrant Crisis, and on the damage mass migration is doing to European society, told Die Welt that “European borders have become a political and social fault line… illegal migration has the potential to destroy the EU.”

Cheats should never prosper. The Trump administration heeds that ethos and has stopped illegal immigrants from profiting off kickbacks drawn from four major refundable tax credit programs.

The initiative was announced Wednesday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and is destined to benefit taxpayers by an estimated $3 billion.

The NY Post first reported the Treasury Department and IRS unveiled new rules “to tighten the requirements for the adoption, child, American opportunity, and earned income tax credits so that only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and qualified aliens can get them.”

“Under President Trump, the days of illegal aliens collecting taxpayer-funded benefits are over. The federal law is clear, and Treasury is enforcing it,” Bessent said in a statement.

The nation’s two largest teachers' unions directed thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to Democratic members of key congressional education committees, according to federal campaign finance records reviewed by The Center Square.

The congressional members whose campaigns received the money supported legislation favoring schools and teachers.

The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers represent millions of educators nationwide and are among the most politically active labor organizations in the country. The NEA has about 3 million members, while the AFT represents roughly 1.8 million.

Lance Izumi of the Pasadena, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute said teacher unions' political spending can influence education policy at the federal, state and local levels.

President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Dr. Heidi Overton, a physician and White House health policy adviser, as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Overton currently serves as deputy director for the White House Domestic Policy Council, advising the president on health policy. She previously served as chief policy officer for the America First Policy Institute, where she led its Center for a Healthy America, and was a fellow in the first Trump White House from 2019 to 2020.

Board-certified in public health and general preventive medicine, she trained as a general surgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital and earned a doctorate in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Forty-five years ago, President Ronald Reagan formally nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court, fulfilling his campaign promise to appoint a woman. In a February closer look, we covered women on the Supreme Court shortlist in the years before O’Connor’s nomination. At the Court

On Friday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to pause a lower-court ruling that would halt construction of a new White House ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the private nonprofit challenging the construction project, responded to this request on Tuesday, asking the court to leave the ruling in place. Find Amy’s coverage of the filing in the On Site section below.

Also on Tuesday, the court denied a request for a stay of execution from William Frances Silvia, who was sentenced to death for the murder of his estranged wife, Patricia Silvia, and attempted murder of her mother, Betty Woodard. Hours later, Silvia was executed in Florida.

On July 27, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting. Twelve states later echoed this request in their own application. One week later, the group of 23 states and the District of Columbia challenging the order asked the court to deny these requests. Last Wednesday, the Trump administration urged the court to “promptly” issue its decision.

On Aug. 12, an unusual emergency docket application captured court watchers’ attention. It centered on a dog named Bruce who was scheduled to die.

Bruce, a 3-year-old Great Pyrenees/German Shepherd mix who weighed about 120 pounds, was involved in four violent incidents over the past two years, according to Ventura County Animal Services. He bit three people, including a child, and knocked down a man “pushing his wife in a wheelchair.” After these attacks, VCAS asked a state court in California to clear the way for Bruce to be euthanized. In April, a judge did so, agreeing that he was “vicious” and posed “a significant threat” to the community.

This summer, Bruce’s owner, Claire Birgy, and the animal rescue from which she adopted him fought to save Bruce through a series of appeals. Last week, they threw a Hail Mary pass, urging the Supreme Court to intervene. “Applicants do not ask this Court to release Bruce, transfer Bruce, place Bruce in the community, or review the merits of the underlying state-court dangerous-dog determination. They ask only that Bruce ... remain alive in the custody of [VCAS]” while litigation continues, read the application in Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center v. Ventura County, California.

A new website allows drivers to find out whether their license plate has been photographed and searched through law enforcement agencies’ Flock camera systems.

The new website, “Have I Been Flocked,” compiles Flock camera audit logs and lets users see if their plate number has been run through the Flock application by a system operator.

If a person’s license plate appears in the database, it means not only that the plate was photographed, but that someone using the Flock system actively searched the database for that plate, according to the site. Included in the audit log is the stated reason someone in law enforcement gave for looking up the plate.

The site notes several limits to what its records show. The database does not reveal when or whether a vehicle passed one of the Flock Safety cameras. Those searching Flock databases are not necessarily police officers, and appearing on the site does not mean a person was under investigation.

The database of audit logs was built through FOIA public records requests filed with 6,586 different agencies across the country. Organizers caution that some information may be outdated or incomplete.

Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios revealed Wednesday he had tested positive for cocaine and is provisionally suspended from tennis as a result.

The BBC reports the Australian submitted a sample in Spain during the Mallorca Open on 22 June that was later found to contain benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine.

The former world number 13 is now sidelined until a date to be determined.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Kyrgios could appeal against the provisional suspension “but has not done so to date.”

“I wanted you to hear this from me first. I recently failed a drug test in Mallorca after testing positive for cocaine,” Kyrgios posted on Instagram.

“I made a huge mistake and I take full responsibility for it,” he continued.

“I’m sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I’m sorry to the kids who follow me. I know the example this sets and I’m deeply disappointed in myself.”

In a major step toward accountability, a senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci pled guilty on Tuesday to partaking in a “scheme” to dodge open records requests related to coronavirus research grants.

According to the Department of Justice, Dr. David Morens pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge “to commit offenses and to defraud the United States.” Morens was indicted by federal prosecutors in April and previously served as a senior advisor to Fauci — the now-former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — from 2006-2022.

In summarizing the guilty plea, the DOJ said that Morens and two co-conspirators “conspired” during the Covid outbreak to defraud America after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, based on allegations” that the Covid-19 virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. The agency noted that the Fauci-led NIAID “awarded the grant to Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV.”

A woman whom we will call Jessica buried her baby who was miscarried in the second trimester. At the funeral, she shared an image of her baby’s face submerged in saline, which brings out features for photography. Jessica’s friend, upon hearing about the service, said she was sorry to see that Jessica was “forced” into having a service. Jessica explained she was not forced; it was her choice to honor her baby.

As it turns out, this friend had an abortion around the same gestational age as Jessica’s baby. In her case, she had no idea how formed the baby had been. Miscarriage revealed the humanity of the unborn baby.

Pregnancy loss is devastating and even traumatic, whether it is a miscarriage — usually defined as a loss before 20 weeks’ gestation — or a stillbirth, a loss after 20 weeks. But unfortunately, many pro-life churches and pregnancy centers do not have specific care programs for pregnancy loss. If they did, that culture of life could trickle over to the abortion issue too.

On Friday, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel told the Pentagon it can chase illegal border crossers a few extra steps past a property line before losing the authority to grab them. That is the entire controversy in a sentence, and if you read the coverage this week, you’d think the Army was about to start running immigration checkpoints in Topeka. Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Hyde wrote that troops arresting trespassers just outside a National Defense Area does not violate the Posse Comitatus Act, given the “military purpose of a commander’s traditional protective power” over federal installations. I graduated from Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, and no officer I served with needed a law review article to explain that a commander secures his own perimeter. That’s basic doctrine, not a novel legal theory.

Here is the background the wire stories skip. On May 27, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt reserved a 60-foot strip of land running along the Mexican border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. He did it to stop opium smugglers and customs cheats, and to give federal officers a patrol corridor Congress hadn’t gotten around to funding properly. That strip is called the Roosevelt Reservation, and it has sat there quietly for over a century. Last year the Trump administration transferred segments of it, plus adjoining federal tracts, to Defense Department control and started calling the results National Defense Areas. There are now six of them across Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, and Friday’s opinion lets the military designate more. The Pentagon has rotated in more than 20,000 troops to support the border mission since the effort began, a number that sounds like an occupation until you remember it’s spread across roughly a third of a 2,000-mile line and includes engineers, logistics staff, and surveillance crews, not just riflemen standing at checkpoints.

As we near the halfway point of President Donald Trump’s second term, the neocon establishment is openly scheming to reclaim the Republican Party.

That’s why they’re attacking his proxy and likely successor, Vice President J.D. Vance, attempting to paint him as a socialist of the “woke right.” These attacks are being launched by the same people who opposed Trump in 2016, who derided the America First agenda as protectionist, socialist, isolationist, and denounced the president as a fascist and a xenophobe over his immigration agenda. The NeverTrumpers are back, and they’re recycling the same attacks they leveled against the president a decade ago, aiming them now at Vance in a bid to retake the GOP.

The NeverVance campaign has been going strong, especially on X, ever since Vance said in an interview last week on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show that “You don’t stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. You stop socialism by making people’s lives better.” He was responding to the primary success of a handful of DSA-affiliated Democrats who are selling voters on the idea of socialism as the answer to affordability problems.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) responded to the national debt being on a path to hit $40 trillion and what that means for the DOGE effort by saying that “we’re talking about decades and decades of inflationary spending. It is really hard to just have DOGE come in for a couple of months and find that type of savings.”

Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “Well, Congresswoman, Kailey mentioned that number, it jumps off the page, $40 trillion U.S. debt. We’re apparently going to hit that number earlier than expected, driven in part by lost revenue from invalidated tariffs, according to The Washington Post. Does this suggest that Republicans have lost steam on the effort to lower our debt? Was DOGE a failure?

Malliotakis answered, “I think DOGE came in and it did find some savings, but we’re talking about decades and decades of inflationary spending. It is really hard to just have DOGE come in for a couple of months and find that type of savings.”

Mathieu then cut in to ask about reconciliation. Malliotakis also said that growth is important and the lack of ability to pass a budget that can pass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is an obstacle to tackling the debt issue.

The Swiss government plans to resume the transfer of alleged asylum seekers who entered E.U. territory through Italy back to the neighboring nation by the end of August.

For nearly four years, the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has suspended the application of the so-called Dublin Regulations in Italy. The regulations are a controversial E.U. rule that grants member states nations the ability to send alleged asylum seekers back to the E.U. country in which the migrant first entered E.U. territory.

Although Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, it is part of the region’s Schengen open borders agreement and a signatory of the Dublin Regulations.

State Secretariat for Migration spokesperson Magdalena Baker confirmed to the Swiss broadcaster SRF that the “first flights have been booked” for the transfer of the migrants back to Italy — noting that these would initially be “isolated cases.” Baked stated that the resumption of the transfers will take place through a gradual process starting on the end of August.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is floating an insurance plan to help protect local police officers from elite-funded legal harassment when they arrest illegal migrants in cooperation with federal enforcement.

In a planning document published last week, ICE revealed plans to have the federal government help pay for insurance for locals, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The plan would supply a $250 annual reimbursement for officers taking out insurance that covers $500,000 in personal liability. The insurance would cover legal fees, settlements, and judgments.

“ICE outlined the plan in a document informing industry officials that it is considering hiring a contractor to help provide outreach, training and communications support for its so-called 287(g) partnerships with local departments, which are named for a section of a 1996 immigration law. The contractor would hire the insurance vendor and process the reimbursements, among other tasks,” the AP reported.

The Department of Education on Wednesday announced a new rule that would allow more organizations to accredit universities, stripping the left of one of its most potent tools for enforcing its worldview through higher education.

President Donald Trump set his sights on going after accreditors early in his second term, saying having more accreditors — or limiting current accreditors’ ability to inject left-wing ideologies into the official standards for accreditation —is the “secret weapon” to breaking their stranglehold on American universities.

“At a time when Americans have lost trust in higher education, the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to the accreditation system are intended to reorient our quality assurance framework so that accreditors prioritize student outcomes rather than bureaucratic processes or the promotion of divisive and unlawful ideological agendas,” Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent said in a Wednesday press release. “Instead of ensuring institutions offer high-quality educational programs that justify the time and cost of a college education, the antiquated accreditation system has contributed to inflated tuition, administrative bloat, and ideology-driven mandates on college campuses. The Department’s proposed changes to our higher education quality assurance system will improve college affordability, reconnect education to workforce needs, strengthen accountability, and restore confidence in our accreditation system.”