Over 200 alleged child sex predators arrested in major FBI operation
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last week.
The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called “Operation Restore Justice” which saw 115 children across the country rescued in the process, Bondi and Patel said.
Bondi called the operation “historic” and “unprecedented” and she warned parents to be vigilant of sex predators posing as children online. The operation spanned 55 field offices.
“These depraved human beings, if convicted, will face the maximum penalty in prison, some [for] life,” Bondi said at a press briefing.
“We will find you. We will arrest you, and we will charge you. If you are online targeting a child, you will not escape us. The FBI and the Department of Justice will come after you. And we will prosecute you.”
Patel said that Jeremy Francis Klonskyv, a Minneapolis state trooper and former Army reservist, was arrested for producing child sexual abuse material while in uniform.
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Jose Alexis Valdez Sosa, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was arrested in Norfolk, Virginia, for transporting a minor across state lines.
Meanwhile, Lynnwood Barnhill, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, was arrested for exploiting children while on supervised release. He is already a convicted sex offender.
“No more,” Patel said. “If you harm our children, you will be given no sanctuary. There is no place we will not come to hunt you down. There is no place we will not look for you, and there is no cage, we will not put you in should you do harm to our children, the prioritization of this administration.”
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Bondi implored parents monitor what their kids are doing online and said that children have no right to privacy online.
‘An online predator can find them, I always say it’s from instant message to instant nightmare parents,” Bondi said. “They’re talking to your kids like they’re other children and they’re not. They’re predators. They pose as children. They get them sometimes to post explicit pictures of themselves after they talk to them and then in some cases, they even try to blackmail the children.”
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Bondi said that the suicide rate among teens aged 14 to 17 has increased as a result of these types of sex predators targeting children.
As well, because teens are taken advantage of and are manipulated online by child predators. So all of you being here today and covering this is so important because parents need to know you’ve got to talk to your kids. They think they’re talking to other children, but most of the time they’re not.
Biden tears into Trump in first interview since leaving White House
Former President Joe Biden was deeply critical of his successor, and predecessor, in his first broadcast interview since leaving the White House, saying President Donald Trump‘s first 100 days were hardly a triumph.
Speaking with BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Biden touted his own record on defending the NATO alliance while ripping Trump’s stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, which Trump has said he wants to see end quickly. The war broke out in early 2022, a year into Biden’s term.
“It is modern-day appeasement,” Biden said of Trump’s attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Anybody who thinks he’s going to stop is foolish.”
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The Trump administration has signaled Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy may have to accept Russia’s control of Crimea and cede some of the Ukrainian land Russia has occupied since its invasion in 2022 as part of a peace agreement.
“I just don’t understand how people think that if we allow a dictator, a thug, to decide he’s going to take significant portions of land that aren’t his, that that’s going to satisfy him,” Biden said, adding, “I don’t quite understand.”
Trump has repeatedly said Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he had been president at the time, and he’s repeatedly heaped blame on his predecessor since taking office.
Relations between the U.S. and Ukraine appeared to hit a low point in February when Trump and Vice President JD Vance blasted Zelenskyy in front of reporters in the Oval Office and suggested he was preventing peace.
“I found it sort of beneath America in the way that took place,” Biden said of the meeting, adding he couldn’t believe Trump’s rhetoric about issues like taking Greenland and making Canada a 51st state.
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“What the hell’s going on here? What president ever talks like that? That’s not who we are,” Biden said. “We’re about freedom, democracy, opportunity, not about confiscation.”
Biden said Trump wasn’t behaving like a “Republican president” when asked if Trump was acting like an autocrat in office. His interviewer said Biden was being “diplomatic.”
When questioned about his record, especially with Trump repeatedly criticizing his administration, Biden defended his achievements as president.
“Let me tell you: when I left office, we had created more jobs than any president in the history of the United States in one term,” Biden said. “Our economy was roaring, we were moving in a direction where the stock market was way up, we were in a situation where we were expanding our influence around the world in a positive world, increasing trade, we regained control of what we invented … of the future of computer chips.”
Asked about Trump claiming his first 100 days were historically great, Biden said, “I’ll let history judge that. I don’t see anything that was triumphant.”
Trump has blamed Biden for negative economic trends, saying that he “inherited” a sinking economy from the previous administration in April.
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“It says how bad the situation we inherited,” Trump told reporters in April in response to questions about the effect of tariffs on the economy. The president added that “you can even say the next quarter is sort of Biden because it doesn’t happen in a daily or hourly basis.”
‘Defund the police’ mecca overrun with violence, ‘failed leadership’
A string of shootings in Minneapolis last week left six victims dead and five others injured in just 24 hours, highlighting “the results” of “years of anti-police rhetoric and failed leadership,” 2022 Minnesota attorney general Republican nominee Jim Schultz told Fox News Digital.
Minneapolis authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of James Ortley, an alleged 34-year-old gang member, in connection with an April 29 mass shooting that left four dead and two injured.
The April 29 incident was the first of six shootings in 24 hours that left a total of six people dead and five others injured, police said, adding that investigators are determining if some of the shootings are connected.
“Minneapolis, sadly, is experiencing the tragic consequences of years of anti-police rhetoric and failed leadership from the Minneapolis State Council and the lunatic county prosecutor of Hennepin County in which Minneapolis sits,” said Schultz, a father of four and president of the Minnesota Private Business Council. “When city officials demonize law enforcement and slash police budgets and refuse to prosecute the criminals, the results are bought on the streets.”
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Particularly, after George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020, Minneapolis became “ground zero” for the “defund the police” movement, Schultz noted, adding that public sentiment toward police and officer retention hasn’t been the same since.
“Years later, police staffing is still down,” he said. “We still have half the police officers that we need. Morale is shattered and criminals feel emboldened because, originating out of that defund-the-police movement … the county prosecutor in Minneapolis, Mary Moriarty, is one of the [George] Soros-funded, hard-left prosecutors who has embraced every policy imaginable to undermine public safety.”
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Schultz said Moriarty is “aggressively pursuing law enforcement” and “electing to … dismiss cases that give lenient plea deals to individuals who had committed serious violent crime, and otherwise embracing a variety of very woke policies, like taking race into account in sentencing guidelines and otherwise.”
The suspect in Tuesday’s mass shooting, for example, has a lengthy criminal history.
Hennepin County records show Ortley was allegedly involved in a crime spree that resulted in a Minneapolis resident being shot through his bedroom window in February, but the district attorney ultimately denied charges for the 34-year-old, as the Star Tribune first reported.
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In approximately the last 15 years, he has also faced charges ranging from DWIs to first-degree aggravated robbery, fleeing a police officer, illegal possession of a firearm and second-degree assault. These charges stem from two violent incidents in which he allegedly shot at a 16-year-old girl while stealing her phone in 2009 and stabbed a man at a bar in 2021.
A witness described Ortley’s weapon used in the attack as a “3-inch-long pocket knife.” The witness further said she saw the victim run away from the defendant, lose his shoe and turn around, at which point Ortley grabbed the victim and “began stabbing him in the back,” according to Hennepin County records.
In the 2021 bar stabbing, Ortley’s latest charge, he was sentenced to serve 39 months in prison and five years of probation, but the court issued a stay of execution, which temporarily stops the sentencing order.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Schultz said Minneapolis has seen a recent “improvement in the number of homicides in this city, in particular.”
“This, of course, is a huge step back … and a reminder that Minneapolis is still operating with a fraction of the police officers it needs,” Schultz said of the mass shooting. “It’s still operating in an environment in which many in city leadership are hostile to law enforcement and that crime problems in the city still persist, even if they are not at their peaks in the way that they were in 2020, ‘21, ’23, ’24.”
The former attorney general nominee said Hennepin County should “set aside these far-left bizarre policies that say that holding [criminals] accountable is somehow unfair because of the circumstances in which they found their lives.”
“We need to ensure that violent criminals are put in prison, for a just amount of time for the victims and for the public safety,” he said.
The Justice Department on Sunday announced an investigation into whether the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office “engaged in a pattern of practice of depriving persons of rights, privileges or immunities secured or protect by the Constitution or laws of the United States” through Moriarty’s new directive for its prosecutors to consider race when negotiating plea deals with criminal defendants.
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In a letter dated May 2, DOJ officials cited Moriarty’s recently adopted “Negotiations Policy for Cases Involving Adult Defendants,” which instructs prosecutors to consider race when formulating plea offers, stating that “racial identity … should be part of the overall analysis” and that prosecutors “should be identifying and addressing racial disparities at decision points, as appropriate.”
“In particular, the investigation will focus on whether HCAO engages in illegal consideration of race in its prosecutorial decision-making,” Justice Department officials said in the letter, which Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon shared on X.
Trump should ditch Alcatraz for island that would scare the worst criminals: Fmr FBI agent
A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump’s revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks would serve as a deterrence for even the worst criminals.
Trump called for the reopening of the notorious prison in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening.
“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump wrote. “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering.”
Trump directed several agencies, including the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security, to develop plans to reopen a “substantially enlarged and rebuilt” Alcatraz prison that would “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” He said the reopening of Alcatraz “will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE.”
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Former FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam told Fox News Digital he has an even better idea on where to build a prison that would serve as a deterrence for criminals.
“If you want to build a prison, forget about Alcatraz,” Gilliam said, pitching San Clemente Island in California as a possible location for the prison.
San Clemente Island is primarily used by the U.S. Navy for several purposes, including training to become a Navy SEAL. The island is only accessible by boat and air, rendering it hard to reach for most people.
Gilliam said San Clemente Island is well-suited to host a prison similar to Alcatraz because of its size and distance from California’s coast, as it’s around 80 miles from San Diego.
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“That is a perfect location that’s close enough and you could build a prison out there for same or less amount of money,” Gilliam said. “Just the isolation of it would send shock factors through the minds of a lot of these people. You would not want to go there because there’s nothing there.”
The former FBI special agent said there’s an unwritten rule that “nobody can hear you scream out there.”
Gilliam said he thinks Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz will send a message to criminals.
“I think the key to Alcatraz was always that it stood alone, you couldn’t escape it and the most hardened criminals were there. So it was a scary place to be,” he said. “And so I think as long as that stays with it, then it’ll serve as a deterrent, I would think.”
In his social media post, Trump said only the most serious criminals would be placed in a revamped Alcatraz.
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“When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm,” Trump added. “No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets.”
Alcatraz was opened in 1934, but closed 29 years later in 1963. It’s now operated by the National Park Service, which operates tours of the infamous prison.
Major US airport ‘one of many volcanoes waiting to erupt,’ pilot warns
The crisis at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport has not only been in the making for years, but it’s just “one of many volcanoes waiting to erupt,” according to American Airlines Capt. Dennis Tajer.
Tajer, a pilot for over 30 years, is one of many aviation experts who told FOX Business that the air traffic control system has been under immense pressure for years given the persisting staffing shortages, outdated technology and underinvestment in critical infrastructure.
“We’ve seen an uptick in serious runway incursions that could have been prevented with modern technology and proper staffing,” Tajer said. Newark “is getting the attention in part due to the volume of traffic in a tight airspace, but these issues are the undertow across the system,” he added.
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These shortfalls came into focus last week when air traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facility in Philadelphia lost radar and radio communications while directing planes to Newark, the second-busiest airport in the New York airport system, for nearly 90 seconds. It led to significant delays and flight cancellations. Air traffic controllers at the Philadelphia TRACON facility work on Newark arrivals and departures.
Aside from the longstanding issues with the air traffic control system, Newark’s challenges have been further strained by ongoing construction at the airport, which leaves it temporarily operating with only one of two parallel runways.
Regardless, Tajer said there is no question that operations are still safe, saying that pilots “will never allow the safety margin to be narrowed no matter the cause.”
Stephen Abraham, a former air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, agreed, telling FOX Business that despite the system being “stretched,” he would never call it unsafe.
“Unsafe means controllers are making mistakes. And I think if you look nationwide, the system is incredibly safe,” Abraham said.
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According to Abraham and Tajer, controllers will always limit the volume of traffic to ensure safety.
The FAA also confirmed to FOX Business that when staffing or equipment issues occur, like at Newark, the agency will ensure safety by slowing the rate of arrivals into the airport.
“Pilots and air traffic controllers do not operate in unsafe conditions. It’s our moral and professional committee to our passengers and country,” Tajer said. “We certainly understand that person’s alarm and agree that the safety margin is under pressure, but easing that pressure is what the system and airlines are wired to do, and that keeps us safe.”
Still, Tajer said that infrastructure failures – stemming from the lack of modern technology and inadequate planning for staffing needs – are “a betrayal of the stakeholder safety culture.”
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Newark airport, deferred comment to the FAA.
The FAA told FOX Business in a statement that the “antiquated air traffic control system is affecting our workforce.” The agency reiterated Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s message that the U.S. “must get the best safety technology in the hands of controllers as soon as possible.”
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Duffy announced a new set of initiatives last week aimed at boosting the hiring and retention of air traffic controllers, including a limited-time incentive package to keep experienced controllers from retiring.
The FAA said it is also working to ensure the current telecommunications equipment in the New York area is more reliable by developing a more resilient and redundant system with the local phone companies in the event something fails. The agency said it is also updating its automation system to improve resiliency.
The FAA said some controllers who work Newark arrivals and departures have taken time off to recover “from the stress of multiple recent outages.”
While the agency said it can’t replace them quickly because it is a “highly specialized profession,” it can keep training controllers who will eventually be assigned to the busy airspace.
Cowboys, Steelers agree to blockbuster trade involving star wide receiver
The Dallas Cowboys agreed to a trade with the Pittsburgh Steelers for wide receiver George Pickens on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
The Steelers will receive a 2026 third-round pick and pick swaps, ESPN reported.
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The Cowboys later announced the deal. Dallas received a 2026 sixth-round draft pick while the Steelers got a 2026 third-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick.
Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones spoke of nearing “substantive trades” either before or after the NFL Draft, and he appeared to fulfill part of that goal with the Pickens trade. This gives quarterback Dak Prescott a new weapon to throw to, taking some of the pressure off CeeDee Lamb.
For Pickens, the 2025 season will essentially be a prove-it year. It is the final season of his rookie deal, and if the Cowboys do not re-sign him, he will be an unrestricted free agent.
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Pickens had 59 catches for 900 yards and three touchdowns in 14 games for the Steelers in 2024. However, his play came with some consternation for the organization. He argued with fans, fought a Cleveland Browns player and was called out by Mike Tomlin for multiple infractions during a game.
He said he did not feel optimistic about the future after the team’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the playoffs.
Dallas was 7-10 last season, and Prescott suffered a season-ending injury in the middle of the year. The Cowboys were 17th in yards gained and 21st in points scored.
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The team parted ways with Mike McCarthy and named Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach.
New identification mandate raises questions, concerns among college-aged travelers
The month of May kicks off the start of the U.S. summer travel season – and nowhere is that felt more acutely than on college campuses, where students are closing laptops, submitting finals and streaming off campus in droves.
However, some may not get past the airport, thanks to a federal ID rule taking effect just as school’s out.
The Department of Homeland Security set the May 7 enforcement date for REAL ID last year, but the law itself has been delayed for nearly two decades. Congress passed it in 2005 – before most current college freshmen were even born. With the deadline landing right after spring semester ends, there is real concern that students heading home could be confused or caught flat-footed by the new requirements.
“We have tens of thousands of folks weekly that are showing up at our driver’s license centers to get the REAL ID,” Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Michael Carroll said at a press conference this week. “It’s a real challenge for us right now, because folks have waited until the last minute.”
On campuses, the buzz in the air is almost palpable as first-year students clamor to share their summer plans, either to far-flung destinations or to visit friends and family. For many, their “plans” include simply packing a carry-on, grabbing friends and escaping as soon as possible to a beach for sun-drenched surf and relaxation. However, for some travelers lacking a REAL ID – or confused about what the law means for them – this update could pose some very real, very unexpected barriers to summer travel.
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Some students were prepared. Riley Davis, a junior at the University of Alabama, said she obtained a REAL ID-compliant license earlier this year.
“I first heard about Real ID on social media last year, and got the star added when I renewed my license this year,” Davis told Fox News Digital. She praised her state’s process as “super fast” and easy, noting that she was also able to register for the appointment online at her local DMV – an option available in some states.
Most college freshmen just wrapped up two intense semesters, adjusting to academic pressures, building new friendships and navigating the quirks of dorm life – all while living away from home for the first time. Many also turned 18 just before or during their first year, meaning they may have only recently become eligible for a REAL ID, which is issued to U.S. residents 18 and older.
It is unclear how many college-aged Americans are currently in compliance with REAL ID requirements. Current estimates are limited and vary from state to state. New Jersey’s REAL ID compliance is the lowest in the country at 17% last month, according to data compiled by CBS News. Pennsylvania and New York reported compliance rates of just 26% and 43%, respectively.
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College students have cited confusion in recent conversations with friends and family about the new IDs and enforcement, as well as whether other documents, such as a passport, would be sufficient.
For anyone who is not prepared to meet REAL ID requirements, either because of when they turned 18 or due to confusion over the law’s enforcement date, they could face long lines and significant wait times before they are cleared to fly domestically, if they can secure an appointment at all.
Officials in New Jersey, for example, said they post “thousands” of new slots a day for residents to obtain REAL ID licenses, slots that have booked up almost immediately, due to the backlog of residents waiting to apply.
Alabama also warned that its appointments are filling up fast, especially in larger cities, and may not be available online due to the last-minute crush. “If appointments are booked in your area, please check other nearby examining offices,” Alabama state officials said last month.
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Other states are also dealing with an eleventh-hour surge in visitors clamoring to obtain a REAL ID before they travel.
Brilyn Hollyhand, an 18-year-old college student and political commentator who met just days earlier with President Donald Trump, told Fox News Digital this week that his issue is not with REAL IDs, but the way they will be used, or not used, for that matter.
“I think it’s insane and stupid that we require an ID to fly domestically, but not to vote,” Hollyhand said of the new requirements, which also apply to domestic flights.
“It’s simple,” he added. “If you need an ID to fly and visit your grandmother out of state, you need it to cast your ballot to decide the future of our nation.”
Many young travelers mistakenly believe their current IDs will still work – even if they lack the star in the top right corner that indicates REAL ID compliance. Others do not realize that a valid passport can also be used for air travel under the new rules, adding to the confusion.
Garrett McDonalds, a sophomore at Auburn University, said his parents told him about the new ID requirements after they got their own licenses renewed – prompting him to renew his own ahead of the deadline.
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He described the process as easy and “crazy smooth,” so long as applicants bring the right paperwork. “Now it should be easier to fly, and hopefully I don’t have to worry about losing my passport on trips anymore!” he said.
TSA agents have warned that individuals without REAL IDs will be subject to additional screening beginning May 7 and should prepare for additional time at the airport before their flights.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney is not your average political leader. He didn’t rise through the ranks of parliament or build his political clout through years of constituency work. He is an unelected central banker turned international power broker with deep ties to the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset movement and the ESG (Environmental, social and governance) agenda.
Some might say that his lack of political experience is a problem for Carney, but I disagree. While many of his country’s leaders were playing politics, Carney was working to transform the world through influential organizations and financial institutions. He was one of the Great Reset’s masterminds, and now, he’s more powerful than ever.
Carney’s sudden political ascent in Canada has the potential to ripple far beyond his own borders. In fact, it may be a warning shot aimed directly at President Donald Trump and the rising populist movement in America.
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Before entering politics, Carney served as the governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, making him the first person to ever head the central banks of two G7 nations. During his tenure at the Bank of England, Carney became a global cheerleader for climate finance, openly pushing for financial institutions to embrace ESG standards and integrate climate risk into their decision-making.
Carney was instrumental in founding the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a coalition of major banks, asset managers and insurers committed to aligning trillions of dollars with the United Nations’ climate targets.
GFANZ quickly became one of the most powerful vehicles for advancing the ESG agenda through private finance. Carney’s idea was the leverage the massive influence of global finance to destroy the fossil-fuel industry and impose ESG social credit scores throughout western economies, including the United States. In the process, Carney believed he could transform the world.
But Carney’s ambitions extend even further. He served on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, the group behind the controversial Great Reset initiative, which proposes reimagining capitalism and reshaping global economies around equity, sustainability and stakeholder governance.
Carney has echoed these themes for years, calling for a shift away from shareholder capitalism and toward a new economic model in which governments and corporations work hand-in-glove to manage society and the economy — a modern kind of soft fascism.
Perhaps most disturbing of all for Americans, Carney has openly called for the replacement of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. While serving as governor of the Bank of England, he proposed a new global digital currency — what he termed a “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency” — to reduce the dollar’s dominance.
If Carney’s vision for global finance were to become a reality, the U.S. economy could enter a massive recession. The dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency means the dollar is used globally for trade and finance. If the dollar were to lose that status, not only would faith in the U.S. economy collapse, much of the $2.25 trillion circulating overseas would likely flood back into America, causing another inflation crisis.
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In today’s political climate, where China and other authoritarian regimes are increasingly working to undermine U.S. financial leadership, Carney’s proposal reads like a gift to America’s greatest adversaries. And now, as prime minister of one of our closest allies, a country that has an outsized influence in global economic policy, Carney is in a position to put his vision into action.
Carney has also voiced support for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), a form of government-controlled digital money that many fear could be used to track and control citizens’ financial behavior.
But Carney’s ambitions extend even further. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, the group behind the controversial Great Reset initiative, which proposes reimagining capitalism and reshaping global economies around equity, sustainability and stakeholder governance.
Imagine a future where your ability to purchase goods or services depends in part on your compliance with government-approved narratives, and in this disturbing future, the government would be able to know about and stop any economic transaction. That’s not a dystopian novel — it’s the long-term goal of many progressives calling for a Great Reset, and Carney is among the movement’s most influential champions.
Make no mistake: Carney might not have any power in America, but his rise to authority in that country matters. His victory in Canada should alarm every American who values liberty, sovereignty and economic freedom. If Carney has his way, Canada will serve as a prototype for the kind of top-down, centrally planned society that the World Economic Forum envisions for the entire Western world.
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And with Donald Trump now serving his second non-consecutive term as president of the United States, it’s no coincidence that Carney has taken power in Canada. The globalist class is preparing for a renewed confrontation with the populist surge that threatens their influence.
Mark Carney isn’t just Canada’s new prime minister — he’s the Great Reset’s man in Ottawa, and he has his sights set on more than just the Canadian economy.
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Broken taillight blunder: More pieces than expected in Karen Read evidence bag
Prosecutor Hank Brennan called Massachusetts State Police Trooper Connor Keefe to the witness stand on Wednesday morning. Keefe is assigned to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office and was sent to 34 Fairview to investigate the crime scene after John O’Keefe was found frozen to death in the front yard.
During his testimony, Keefe held up six pieces of evidence found at the crime scene – O’Keefe’s black sneaker and pieces of a broken vehicle taillight – noting a third piece of the red taillight was not initially placed in the bag.
“Do you know if the other piece in the bag is a piece that broke off?” Brennan asked. “Do you know how that arrived there?”
“I do not,” Keefe said.
Following a brief delay, Keefe was instructed to place the third piece of the broken taillight in a separate bag upon leaving the stand.
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without the jury present, prosecutor Hank Brennan and defense attorney Robert Alessi sparred over the Commonwealth’s request to allow data expert Dr. Jessica Hyde to be called as a witness in Karen Read’s trial.
Alessi asked Judge Beverly Cannone for permission to cross-examine Hyde on her access to data from Apple and overall methodology. Alessi pointed to Hyde’s investigation into the timing of Jen McCabe’s Google search, “hos [sic] long to die in the cold.”
The prosecution previously called data expert Ian Whiffin to testify on how he used Cellebrite software to uncover a software bug that explained the discrepancy regarding when the web browser tab was opened and when the search was conducted.
“What I want to do with regard to her 2:27 a.m. timestamp and her anticipated testimony on that,” Alessi said. “Where she uses a tool – Cellebrite – to determine and come to a conclusion about that timestamp. She is not using Apple’s source code to find out where [the data is] located specifically in the phone and what it means.”
Alessi went on to reference a decision from a Maryland court deeming Hyde’s report in a separate case as unreliable, citing her use of a third-party platform.
“I’m not looking to exclude [her testimony],” Alessi said. “I’m looking to cross her on her reliability for the conclusions I anticipate she’s going to make on [the Google search].
Brennan hit back, arguing that the Maryland case is separate from Karen Read’s trial and Apple’s source code is unavailable to all investigators.
“The opinion did not say she was wrong,” Brennan said. “It said that it was not admissible under [the Maryland case], unrelated. Nobody has the Apple source code, no expert can testify about Apple source code. It’s only owned by Apple.”
Following the back-and-forth, Cannone ultimately decided to allow Read’s defense to cross-examine Hyde but ruled against any discussion of the Maryland case.
During cross-examination by defense attorney David Yannetti, Massachusetts State Police Trooper Connor Keefe was grilled on his working relationship with former investigator Michael Proctor.
Keefe reported to Proctor during the initial investigation into O’Keefe’s death, with Keefe compiling video evidence from C.F. McCarthy’s and The Waterfall Bar and Grille. Proctor was then tasked with analyzing and writing reports based on the footage provided by Keefe.
“Were you one of the newer members of the unit as of January of 2022?” Yannetti asked.
“Yes,” Keefe said.
“Then Trooper Michael Proctor had more experience than you did as of Jan. 29, 2022, correct?” Yannetti continued.
“He could have,” Keefe said. “He’d been on the job longer.”
Yannetti then went on to question Keefe on his conversations with medical examiner Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello during John O’Keefe’s autopsy.
“Did you talk to Dr. Scordi-Bello during the autopsy?” Yannetti asked.
“Yes,” Keefe said.
“And you gave her information, if you don’t want to call it input, correct?” Yannetti said.
“Yes,” Keefe answered.
“And at the end of [the autopsy], you left without her ruling it a homicide,” Yannetti said.
However, prosecutor Hank Brennan objected before Keefe could provide an answer.
O’Keefe’s manner of death remains undetermined, with the cause ruled as blunt force trauma to the head and hypothermia.
Judge Beverly Cannone called Court into session on Wednesday morning with both Karen Read and John O’Keefe’s family sitting front-row in the gallery.
Karen Read arrived at the Norfolk Superior Courthouse surrounded by her defense team for Day 11 of her murder trial. The Commonwealth is set to continue calling witnesses on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, special prosecutor Hank Brennan played a series of voicemails that Karen Read allegedly left John O’Keefe after authorities said she struck him with an SUV and left him to die in a blizzard.
Massachusetts State Trooper Nicholas Guarino returned to the stand Tuesday to read through text messages and phone calls between Read and O’Keefe from the evening of Jan. 28, 2022, into the following morning, when Read was among three women who found him.
Records show Read’s phone connected to the Wi-Fi at O’Keefe’s home at 12:36 a.m. on the 29th, Guarino said. Read made more than 50 calls to O’Keefe that morning but did not leave a voicemail every time.
At 12:37 a.m., she left the first of eight voicemails for O’Keefe.
“John, I f—ing hate you,” she said, in a recording played in court.
By then,
prosecutors allege O’Keefe had been mortally injured by the rear end of Read’s Lexus SUV and left for dead as a blizzard picked up strength.
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Karen Read’s trial will resume Wednesday morning as special prosecutor Hank Brennan continues to call witnesses to the stand. Jurors heard from testimony from retired Canton Police Lt. Paul Gallagher, meteorologist Robert Gilman and State Police Lt. Kevin O’Hara on Tuesday as the Commonwealth
continues to build its timeline of John O’Keefe’s death.
Read is facing charges of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death after O’Keefe was found frozen to death in the front yard of 34 Fairview on the morning of Jan. 29, 2022. If convicted, Read could spend up to the rest of her life in prison.