(Headline USA) A shooter who opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland died Friday after a standoff with police following an attack that left one person dead and at least nine others injured, city officials said.
Midland police said the active shooter situation ended hours after the gunfire erupted in one part of the city before ending up near a veterinary hospital.
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Police did not immediately say how the suspect died. Midland Mayor Lori Blong said authorities used robot and drone footage to confirm that the shooter was dead.
Andrea Mendias said she heard what sounded like a small explosion at the closed veterinary clinic next to the body shop where she works and saw a number of heavily armed police officers rush into the parking lot. Some appeared to go inside the building.
Mendias said she earlier heard what sounded like at least 40 gunshots.
Video from Mendias showed officers pouring out of the back of an armored police vehicle and police deploying robots into the area.
Midland Memorial Hospital said four people underwent surgery and that three had been treated and released. Two others were in stable condition, the hospital said.
The city with about 140,000 residents sits in the heart of the state’s oil region and was near the site of a deadly shooting rampage in 2019.
In that shooting, a gunman who had been fired from his oil services job killed seven people and wounded two dozen others while firing at random as he drove around the Odessa and Midland areas. The two cities are more than 300 miles west of Dallas.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) North Carolina man Alexander Justin White, who was recruited online by an undercover FBI agent in 2024 to join ISIS, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison.
White was arrested in December 2024 as he was attempting to depart the country to allegedly join ISIS in the Middle East. He pled guilty three months later. Sentencing memos, which outline the arguments by the government and defense for how long the sentence should be, are sealed in this case.
According to the court records, an FBI undercover agent and confidential informant strongly encouraged White’s criminal activities.
Charging papers allege that White had expressed interest online in joining ISIS. In September 2024, he was contacted by an FBI agent who claimed that he could help fulfill White’s desire.
“On September 10, 2024, the [undercover FBI agent] contacted WHITE by posing as an ISIS facilitator located overseas. Based on WHITE’s expressed intentions elsewhere, the [undercover agent] questioned whether WHITE still intended to join them overseas, to which WHITE stated he did,” states an affidavit from FBI agent Monika Van Hooser.
Newly unsealed court records reveal what seems to be a case of entrapment. A North Carolina man named Alexander White was spouting online for years about ISIS. Then, an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS recruiter reached out to him to fulfill his desires. The agent had an… pic.twitter.com/sEeupeTny3
Four days later, the undercover FBI agent messages White again.
“The brothers are working on special opportunity for you to speak with Emir Soon, Does this interest you akhi?” the agent asked, to which White responded, “It very well does brother.”
“Following the call, WHITE told the [FBI agent] that he was glad to have had the opportunity even though he was shy and had difficulty speaking, but loved talking to the Emir’s spokesperson and could not wait to meet everyone,” charging papers state.
White continued speaking with the undercover FBI agent and preparing to join ISIS for the next two months. The FBI apparently had him under heavy surveillance, as a photo of him walking to his car in October 2024 was included in the charging papers.
He was arrested on Dec. 4, 2024, at the Raleigh-Durham Airport, while attempting to board a flight to Paris.
White was arrested for allegedly trying to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
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(Headline USA) FBI agents have searched the office of an Ohio group that supports voter registration efforts, seizing documents and computer files, a board member of the organization said Friday.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must convince a judge that probable cause of criminal activity exists.
Federal agents showed up at the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday and spent hours questioning staff, said Prentiss Haney, a board member of the grassroots organization. The organization was founded in 2007 and describes its mission as fighting for criminal justice reform, racial justice and an expansion of voting rights.
Federal agents also went to the homes of people who have worked with the organization, seeking interviews and information about alleged voter fraud, Haney said. He accused the agents of “intimidation tactics and harassment.”
BREAKING: The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a Democrat "voter rights" group, was raided by the FBI.
One of the organization’s board members, Kirk Noden, is the founder of ANOTHER leftwing Ohio-based firm that was investigated for voter fraud in 2024.
The focus of the probe was unclear, but a person familiar with the matter said Friday that investigators were examining potential fraud violations. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Justice Department declined to comment on Friday, and a spokesperson for the FBI in Cleveland did not respond to messages seeking comment.
The Justice Department during President Donald Trump’s second term has launched several legal actions or investigations related to voting or state election operations.
The FBI has seized ballots and other records from the 2020 election for Georgia’s Fulton County and Arizona’s Maricopa County and from the 2024 election in Michigan’s Wayne County. It also has been questioning election workers in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County.
The Justice Department has sued at least 30 states and the District of Columbia after they refused to hand over detailed voter data that includes dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers. It has said in court filings that it wants the information so it can run it through a Department of Homeland Security program that checks U.S. citizenship. The Justice Department has so far been on a losing streak in its lawsuits seeking to extract the data from the holdout states.
Early in his second term, Trump, a Republican, also ordered the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the top fundraising platform for the Democratic Party that’s mired in corruption allegations. Its CEO pled the 5th Amendment more than 20 times when questioned earlier this week in Congress.
(Headline USA) Elon Musk may never colonize Mars as promised, but enough investors consider the SpaceX founder to be a sort of miracle man that they’ll help him reach another fantastic goal Friday when he takes the rocket company public.
The world’s richest man is set to become its first trillionaire.
Known for his brilliant technology breakthroughs, as well as wild claims and missed deadlines, Musk is expected to break that trillion dollar mark in the biggest initial public offering ever as investors place bets on a company with losses as big as its ambitions. Ahead of the first trade in SpaceX, Forbes puts Musk’s net worth at $982.6 billion.
In addition to establishing a one-million person Martian colony, the company has promised to save humanity by establishing other outposts in space, launch data centers the size of football fields into orbit and outdo rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in the race to make money from artificial intelligence.
To reach its goals, SpaceX needs billions more than it currently takes in from its rocket and satellite business. Between the start of 2025 and March 31, 2026, the company lost $8.7 billion.
Big institutional buyers and smaller-pocketed investors alike have indicated they are willing to take a chance, paying a high enough price for the 555.6 millions on offer to raise $75 billion. That will easily top the current title holder, Saudi Aramco, the oil giant that raised $26 billion in its 2019 initial offering.
If the IPO goes off without a hitch, its value will come down mainly to one thing: Musk.
The soon-to-be trillionaire — on paper at least — made his fortune by creating two companies, Zip2 and PayPal, that netted him about $200 million at sale. He used that money to start SpaceX and invest in Tesla, and defied the odds by creating a space company that figured out how to reuse rockets and a car company that made electric vehicles cool.
Musk has realized vast sums of wealth for himself, much of it in stock he has yet to cash in or grants for shares he’ll only receive if Tesla or SpaceX hit ambitious performance targets. His recent pay package from Tesla drew criticism from the Vatican. At Tesla, he’s worried shareholders by fighting with regulators or dividing his attention between multiple companies and last year by taking a role in the Trump administration.
But a rising stock price has cured all ills: Since it went public in 2010, Tesla has returned 20,000% for shareholders, or more than $1.2 trillion in investor wealth. That has helped lift Musk’s pre-SpaceX IPO worth to $795 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
SpaceX is the first of three “megacap” companies expected to go public this year, with Anthropic and OpenAI to follow. Nasdaq even revised its rules to allow SpaceX to gain entry into funds tied to its indexes in 15 days, which means investors will end up buying the rocket maker’s shares much earlier.
Not all investors are thrilled about SpaceX potentially showing up in their holdings of index funds. Officials from pension funds for firefighters, teachers and other workers in California and New York sent a letter to SpaceX last month decrying some of the provisions in its IPO, including the “super voting shares,” mandatory arbitration of shareholder claims instead of the possibility of lawsuits and how much power Musk will hold over the company.
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche dropped a bombshell of data on Thursday describing Trump administration efforts to find hundreds of thousands of missing unaccompanied alien children (UACs). UACs are minors trafficked to the U.S. border and smuggled into the U.S. under the guise of reuniting with family. In reality, many have been trafficked through a complex network run by transnational criminal organizations.
More than 475,000 UACs were trafficked to the U.S. during the Biden administration. More than 300,000 were unaccounted as of the end of 2024, Blanche said at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
“The way that this happened is criminals trafficked these children to the border usually committing fraud to do so,” he said. “Oftentimes the children were abused, assaulted and certainly exploited.”
Once UACs arrive in the U.S., federal law requires that their oversight and care be administered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. The ORR has historically sent the majority of children to live with so-called sponsors.
Under the Biden administration, ORR often placed UACs with unvetted sponsors, background checks weren’t performed, UACs were released to alleged gang members, human traffickers, non-family members and sent to non-residential addresses, federal inspector general audits and a Florida grandjury found, The Center Square reported.
“In some cases, individuals would sponsor multiple children, which required them to lie to government personnel and on government forms claiming they were close relatives when in fact they were not,” Blanche said. “They would use fake or stolen identities and make other false claims during the application process in order to obtain custody of the children.”
Last fall, the Trump administration launched a welfare check initiative with multiple federal agencies attempting to locate the UACs, The Center Square reported. The Trump administration is also still releasing UACs to sponsors.
U.S. attorneys nationwide are prosecuting human traffickers and smugglers, including of UACs, as well as those who put UACs into forced labor and sex trafficking schemes.
There are more than 15,500 super-sponsor cases the DOJ has identified along with the Department of Homeland Security, Blanche said. Super-sponsor cases involve individuals who sponsor more than three unrelated UACs. The cases involve sexual assault of children, “the stuff of nightmares,” he said.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said, “When we started digging into these cases, we started hearing the absolute horrific things that took place under the Biden administration. It was true neglect, at best, and criminal, at worst, to allow 450,000 kids to go missing throughout this country.”
Thanks to Congress fulling funding federal immigration enforcement over the next three years, he said, “We’re able to push and go find these kids.”
So far, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DHS, the DOJ and other agencies have found 146,000 UACs, Mullin said. “We still have nearly 300,000 missing.”
“We’re investigating reports” in response to children claiming “they’ve been raped 600 to 700 times,” he said.
“I don’t care who you are. I don’t care if you have kids, you don’t have kids. I don’t care if you’re a liberal, you’re an Independent, you’re a Democrat, you’re a Republican. If you can’t stand for law enforcement to go find these kids, who are you?”
Mullin also said federal agents have found the majority of UACs in so-called sanctuary cities run by Democrats. He criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who’s opposed ICE operations. “He knows what’s happening in the streets. He knows who he’s harboring, and at this point, abetting, by saying that we can’t go operate,” Mullin said.
“We’re going to go find the worst of the worst” in New York City, he said. “We’re going to rescue as many kids as we possibly can. We’re going to enforce our nation’s laws and we’re going to right the wrongs that the Biden administration turned a blind eye to.”
“Four years of a blind eye allowed unvetted sponsors to come pick up 450,000 kids on our borders knowing … it was reported that over a third of the females regardless of age were sexually assaulted before they made it to the border,” he said. The Biden administration “knew it was human traffickers who were trafficking these young kids to the border. Then they didn’t vet the so-called sponsors. There were zero wellness checks.”
ICE officers are finding the children, “the same individuals that the Democrats want to demonize. Every single day it is our law enforcement out there doing that job,” Mullin said.
To missing children, he said, “we’re going to find you.”
To their abusers, he said, “we’re going to bring you to justice.”
The crimes committed against hundreds of thousands of children are a direct result of the federal government failing “to protect our borders,” Blanche said. As a result, “it is the most vulnerable who suffer.”
(Carleen Johnson, The Center Square) Six months after a female wrestler in the Puyallup School District reported being sexually assaulted by a male wrestler who identifies as female during a match, the 16-year-old student and her mother are suing Washington state officials.
“Washington state officials insist on pushing gender ideology at all costs — even at the expense of girls’ safety and privacy,” said ADF Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights in a Tuesday news release announcing that ADF is representing the athlete.
Defendants include the Puyallup School District, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association and state education officials, including the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
“Kallie is a sophomore in high school. She’s been wrestling since she was four and at a wrestling match in December, an all-girls tournament, Kallie unknowingly wrestled against a male athlete who identified as female,” said ADF attorney Suzanne Beecher in a Wednesday interview with The Center Square.
“During the match, she was sexually assaulted by this male athlete. Her mom immediately reported what happened to the school and they didn’t hear anything for months until it hit the media and the school finally did what they’re required to do and reported the case to law enforcement,” Beecher said.
The attorney explained that despite federal Title IX protections for girls in sports, Washington is among several states continuing to allow males who identify as female to compete against girls.
“Twenty-seven states have laws that kind of go on top of Title IX’s protections to say that they specifically protect the rights of women and girls. Washington is one of the 23 states that are allowing males to compete in the female category. We believe that Title IX gives girls a protected category, and so what Washington’s doing is in violation of federal law,” Beecher said.
As reported by The Center Square, video of the match taken by Keeler’s mom and featured in Brandi Kruse’s unDivided podcast, shows the teen’s face grimacing as the opponent’s hand is seen between her legs.
School officials did not report the incident to the Pierce County Sheriff’s office until Jan 30, 2026, nearly two months after it happened and the Keeler family had reported it to the school.
Puyallup School spokeswoman Sarah Gillispie declined comment on the specifics in response to an inquiry from The Center Square.
“This matter is under investigation,” she wrote in the statement. “As such, we cannot share details or discuss specifics. What we can say is that student safety is a top priority and that all reports involving student safety are taken seriously.”
Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank told The Center Square his office took a report on the incident.
“It is in the hands of the prosecuting attorney’s office now for them to review for possible charges to be filed,” Swank said.
The prosecutor declined to file charges.
State Superintendent Chris Reykdal, who has ordered Washington school districts to allow male athletes who identify as female to compete in the gender category they identify with, did not provide comment about the lawsuit, but said the office is “reviewing the case.”
Meantime, Washington voters will have a chance to weigh in on the matter this November.
IL26-638 would require policies prohibiting students it defines as “biologically male” from competing with or against female students in certain interschool athletic activities that are intended for female students only.
“I think the initiative shows that Washingtonians want the rights of their daughters to be protected. Title IX, federal law already protects the rights of these girls, and currently Washington’s policy is out of step with Title IX’s protections for girls,” said Beecher with ADF.
“We are seeking the ability for Kallie to compete on a level playing field, for her mom to be able to know at a minimum if there is a male competing in the female category and for compensation for what happened to her.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a ruling soon on two major cases regarding state-level bans on transgender athletes.
With a 6-3 conservative majority appearing likely to uphold the restrictions, males would be prevented from competing on female sports teams in schools nationwide, regardless of how they identify.
(Headline USA) An American scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy was arrested by authorities in China on suspicion of spying, China’s foreign ministry said Friday.
The scholar, Min Zin, was suspected of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security,” said China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian.
It is uncommon for Beijing to arrest a U.S. citizen on national security allegations. The case comes just a month after U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing as the two countries aim to reset a tumultuous relationship.
A Burmese activist who knows Min Zin said he disappeared June 3 after going to Kunming, in China’s Yunnan province, for a conference. The activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of government retribution and arrest, said Min Zin had visited China multiple times before.
Min Zin was a student activist in Myanmar’s 1988 uprising, a student-led movement that the government at the time reacted to with military force. He eventually sought asylum in the U.S. He was not engaged in any direct activism work currently, said the activist.
Min Zin is the founder of a think tank called ISP Myanmar, which in recent years has written about Chinese foreign policy and trade with Myanmar, located on China’s southwest border. The think tank was involved in regular exchanges with Chinese think tanks, and had published on issues such as Myanmar’s rare earth exports to China.
Min Zin is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.
Amnesty International, the human rights organization, called for Min Zin’s immediate release.
“The circumstances around Min Zin’s mysterious arrest are extremely concerning, as is the apparent charge of espionage,” said Joe Freeman, a Myanmar researcher for the group.
(Headline USA) A jury Thursday convicted the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell of sexually assaulting women while he posed as a rideshare driver.
Jurors found Alvin Campbell, 45, guilty of 21 out of 22 counts for sex assaults from 2017 to 2019, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said. He was found guilty of charges including aggravated rape, kidnapping and photographing an unsuspecting nude person.
The jury was deadlocked on one of the rape charges.
“We will determine our action, if any, at a future date on that charge,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement.
Campbell faces up to life in prison for aggravated rape when he is sentenced on June 29.
Campbell posed as a rideshare driver to target women outside bars or other locations, prosecutors said.
His younger sister became the first woman of color to win statewide office in Massachusetts when she was sworn in as attorney general in 2023. A spokesperson for the attorney general’s office didn’t immediately return an email from The Associated Press late Thursday seeking comment on the verdict.
Andrea Campbell has spoken previously about her family’s troubled history in the criminal justice system, including her brother’s rape charges.
“One thing I do frequently is share my story because I think there are so many who carry their story with a sense of shame and don’t want to talk about it, including the criminal aspects of my family,” she said in a previous interview with the AP. “But there is no shame in one sharing their story. There is power in it.”
The attorney general is the chief lawyer and law enforcement officer in the state.
After the verdict, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden told reporters he hadn’t spoken with the attorney general.
Alvin Campbell “deceivingly and calculatedly” preyed upon women in their most vulnerable moments, Hayden said. “I can’t imagine what that horror must have been like for them.”
Campbell’s defense attorney didn’t immediately respond to a phone message and email from the AP.
Hayden expressed gratitude to the women who testified: “We’re happy that we were able to secure justice and accountability for them and so we thank them.”
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a bill to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gives the federal government the power to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans, and now the spying tool is expected to lapse as its last extension will expire on Friday night.
The bill to renew Section 702 required a two-thirds majority but couldn’t even gain a simple majority as it failed in a vote of 198-218, with just seven Democrats voting in favor of the extension. Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the bill.
“19 Republicans withheld our votes in order to preserve Constitutionally guaranteed rights,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote on X. “By refusing to honor the Fourth Amendment, you’re jeopardizing the continuation of FISA. Include a WARRANT requirement for US citizens if you want Republicans to pass this bill.
Section 702, first enacted in 2008, authorizes warrantless surveillance targeting non-Americans overseas but also results in the collection of a vast amount of Americans’ communications. Those communications are retained in government databases and can be searched by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies without a warrant.
Efforts to extend Section 702 were also blocked in the Senate as Democrats said they won’t allow it to go through unless President Trump rescinds his decision to appoint Bill Pulte, who serves as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as the acting director of national intelligence.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) slammed Democrats for allowing the spy power to expire, saying they were “willing to JEOPARDIZE the safety and the security of the American people to make a cheap political point.”
President Trump has been calling for Congress to pass the Section 702 extension, even though his 2016 campaign was targeted under FISA. Earlier this year, the president said he was willing to give up his “rights and privileges” to extend the spying power, an acknowledgment that it violates civil liberties.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Karmelo Anthony, the Texas man convicted of the murder of 17-year-old track star Austin Metcalf, is pleading with taxpayers to pay for his appeal attorney despite pocketing more than half a million in a controversial online fundraiser.
In a court filing submitted after his conviction and 35-year prison sentence, 19-year-old Anthony said he was too poor to afford a new set of attorneys for the appeals process.
Public defenders are typically available for criminal defendants as they challenge their convictions, but financial hardship must be proved.
In the document, Anthony called himself a “penniless, destitute, and indigent person, too poor to employ counsel to represent me on the appeal,” according to WFAA ABC 8 News.
It is not immediately clear what issues Anthony intends to raise on appeal.
Texas law permits individuals to appeal their convictions within 30 days after their sentences are announced, according to the outlet.
The “penniless” description is at odds with the $625,000 he and his family collected through a GiveSendGo campaign.
Anthony raised the six-figure sum after his family and supporters portrayed his prosecution as an example of racial injustice. Anthony, the now-convicted aggressor, is black, while Metcalf, who died in his twin brother’s arms, was white.
GiveSendGo shut down the fundraiser after the trial concluded in a guilty conviction. The platform said in a statement that the funds were distributed to the Anthony family.
“This fundraiser was created to support pre-trial needs, and those funds were disbursed over the past year for lawful purposes including legal defense and family relocation,” the platform said in a post shared on social media and its official website.
“With that stated purpose now complete, the fundraiser has been closed and the funds will be paid out,” it added.
Anthony received his sentence after a jury found him guilty of murdering Metcalf during an altercation at a track meet in April 2025. At the time, both men were 17.
As revealed during trial testimony, Metcalf repeatedly asked Anthony to leave a tent designated for students from Memorial High School.
Anthony, a student at rival Centennial High School, responded by stabbing Metcalf in the chest. Metcalf dropped to the ground and died in his twin brother Hunter’s arms.
Collin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Elizabeth Ventura told jurors that Anthony’s knife pierced through Metcalf’s chest and reached his heart. The wound was not survivable.
