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On June 27th, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to a call alerting its officers to a stabbing near an apartment complex’s leasing office.

When officers arrived at the block at 9100 West Flamingo Road, they discovered a 50-year-old Hispanic man, a maintenance worker at the complex, sustaining knife wounds in the leasing office. The suspected assailant, a white man in his 30s, was quickly apprehended.

The suspect, Spencer McDonald, 30, had close ties to one of the apartments in the complex. Upon entering, officers discovered the bodies of a woman in her 80s and two men in their 40s. Reports suggest that before the 911 call, the leasing office had asked two maintenance workers to complete a welfare check on the residence.

One worker managed to escape and ran to the leasing office for help. The maintenance worker was then taken to the University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Meanwhile, authorities believe the second worker is one of the deceased victims inside the apartment.

McDonald faces four charges, including three counts of open murder and one of attempted murder. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department remains committed to discovering the motives behind this tragedy and is asking for tips from the public.

This incident serves as a stark reminder of the importance of being mindful of one’s surroundings and taking the necessary measures to ensure safety. Officers also highlight the significance of alerting police to any suspicious activity.

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have made it clear that they do not care what you think about the fact that they are accepting copious, thinly veiled bribes from billionaires.

Supreme Court associate justice Samuel Alito poses for an official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Another week, another Supreme Court corruption scandal. This time it’s Samuel Alito in the spotlight, after ProPublica, fresh off its April exposé of justice Clarence Thomas’s decades of undisclosed gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow, revealed last week that Alito had taken his own undisclosed gifts from a billionaire: Paul Singer, hedge fund manager and GOP megadonor, who had business before the court from which Alito failed to recuse himself.

The Thomas story was bad enough for a court whose public standing has taken a beating over a series of outrageous rulings, followed by further stories that exposed just how deeply conflicted and compromised Thomas is. But the Alito story — already arguably worse, since Alito can’t even use Thomas’s excuse that his billionaire benefactor was never directly involved in a case that he ruled on — may become an even bigger debacle. That’s thanks in large part to a set of unforced errors accumulated over the course of the bizarre way the justice chose to respond to the story.

ProPublica’s report was preempted by a Wall Street Journal op-ed from Alito himself defending his conduct and “pre-bunking” the outlet’s piece, charging them with “misleading” reporting — even though he hadn’t read the unpublished report. As ProPublica later explained in a separate piece about this profoundly weird development, it seems that Alito, in concert with the Supreme Court’s press office, had used the outlet’s generous policy of holding off publication of the story until Alito sent back responses to lie to the reporters that he wouldn’t comment, find out when they were planning to publish the story, then blindside them by having the Wall Street Journal quickly spring his defense on the public.

The Journal’s decision to publish Alito’s “prebuttal” to a competitor’s story has been savaged by experts in journalistic ethics, media critics, and even some former employees. This ethical lapse wasn’t helped by the fact that the Journal editor unnecessarily appended a snarky note explaining that ProPublica “styles itself ‘an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force,’” before the editorial board published its own op-ed explicitly defending Alito, calling the piece “typically slanted” and “a non-scandal built on partisan spin intended to harm the justice and the current Court majority.”

In a furious screed worthy of Brett Kavanaugh, the board went on to profess that it was “hilarious to be denounced for betraying the media brotherhood” by “the same crowd that would prefer if we didn’t exist,” and that the reporting in ProPublica — founded by a former Journal reporter who had served as the paper’s managing editor for more than twenty years — was really “about the left’s fury at having lost control of the Court.” Columbia University journalism professor and former Journal senior editor Bill Grueskin told the Times that Alito’s choice to go to the paper instead of issuing a statement, “and that the editorial page was willing to serve as his loyal factotum,” said “a great deal about the relationship between the two parties.”

And that’s before you even get to the substance of Alito’s defense, in which he claimed that Singer’s gifts amounted to “personal hospitality” and so were exempt from disclosure, that he had no idea Singer headed the hedge fund involved in the cases he was ruling on, and that the private jet seat he had accepted would have been empty otherwise, making it his right — no, his duty, given the taxpayer costs involved in flying commercial — to take the gift.

But as ProPublica pointed out in its rebuttal, private jet flights don’t count as hospitality, and Singer’s involvement in the hedge fund was widely reported at the time. I would also add that ethics rules don’t have an exemption for taking bribes if it would save the taxpayer money.

So for those counting, that’s three different institutions whose public standing has been damaged by this fiasco: the justice himself, the court bureaucracy that misled reporters on his behalf to assist this caper, and one of the country’s major newspapers, which crossed some major ethical lines to let him pull it off and published his op-ed without even being able to fact-check it. That’s a rare hat trick.

Ironically, it was the Journal itself that published an investigation two years ago that revealed 152 federal judges had improperly and illegally ruled on more than a thousand cases that involved firms in which they held stock, quite rightly treated by the paper as a major scandal at the time. In those cases, the judges actually disclosed those conflicts — both Thomas and Alito failed to do the same for the gifts they got from billionaires, carrying the uncomfortable suggestion that the most powerful court in the country is not only financially compromised, but considers itself above even the bare minimum of ethical conduct that lower-court judges hold themselves to.

It’s hard to think of many other countries where not only is the plain financial corruption and partisan affiliation of the judiciary so tolerated and even defended, but where the high court also happens to be as extremely powerful as it is in the United States, where a handful of elites can simply rewrite and nullify long-standing law seemingly on a personal whim.

The Journal editorial board is wrong to cast ProPublica’s reporting as an exercise in left-wing activism. But it’s right that these revelations are damaging to the Supreme Court as it exists — because they should spur action to reshape it into a body of genuine “judicial independence” and democratic will, not a conduit for billionaire interests.

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Roseanne must “immediately clarify her statements, lest they be used by antisemites, neo-Nazis, BDS Israel haters, and Islamists the world over to deny the Holocaust,” Boteach told World Israel News.

By Atara Beck, World Israel News

Comedian Roseanne Barr, known as a strong supporter of Israel and a proud Jew, shocked audiences this month when she said the Holocaust “never happened” and added that it “should happen.”

As a guest on the June 14 episode of fellow comedian Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast, Barr said, “Nobody died in the Holocaust either. That’s the truth.

“It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now ’cause they cause all the problems in the world. But it never happened.”

Video of the comments went viral two weeks later.

Responding to widespread criticism, Von posted the interview on Twitter and insisted that Barr was “obviously using sarcasm and satire. She is a mensch and one of the funniest people i’ve ever met.”

Here is the full clip of Roseanne Barr obviously using sarcasm and satire. She is a mensch and one of the funniest people i’ve ever met. pic.twitter.com/p0K6pWEqr8

— Theo Von (@TheoVon) June 27, 2023

Roseanne’s son, Jake Pentland, also defended his mother, telling TMZ, “We are embarrassed that people are stupid enough not to recognize Roseanne is being sarcastic. We think it’s funny that people are so stupid. Let’s stop doing this clickbait s**t, we need to focus on big problems in America. Focusing on out-of-context clips is what morons do.”

Among those who were shocked by Roseanne’s statement was Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, founder of the World Values Network that brought the comedian to Israel in 2019. During that tour, as part of an anti-BDS campaign, she addressed a packed audience in Jerusalem, proclaiming her Jewish pride and support for Israel, and visited Samaria, where she planted trees and praised the Jewish communities there.

“The media is reporting that my friend Roseanne Barr said on a podcast that no Jews died in the Holocaust. I have not talked with Roseanne. I find it hard to believe that someone who has joined me in fighting antisemitism and protecting Israel throughout the world, including in a special trip we took to Israel in 2019 where we spoke before large audiences, would deny the historical fact of six million Jews being murdered in the largest genocide in world history,” Boteach, who himself has been attacked by antisemites and has warned his fellow Jews to take it seriously, told World Israel News in an email.

“The Holocaust is an incontrovertible historical fact. It’s absurd to have to even mention it. The podcast host, Theo Von, tweeted that it was sarcasm: ‘This Roseanne Barr clip was sarcasm folks. A clip taken out of a long sarcastic rant she had during our chat. Can we not recognize sarcasm anymore?’

“Sarcasm aside, my friend Roseanne needs to immediately clarify her statements, lest they be used by antisemites, neo-Nazis, BDS Israel haters, and Islamists the world over to deny the Holocaust.

“This is a time for earnestness, not sarcasm. I call on my friend Roseanne to speak the truth she knows all too well, and the sooner the better,” he concluded.

‘This isn’t funny’

According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, “Barr’s comments were taken out of context. Criticism not valid.”

Not everyone agrees.

Among others who took offense to Barr’s comments on Van’s show was ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who tweeted: “Sarcasm or not, Roseanne Barr’s comments about Jews and the Holocaust are reprehensible and irresponsible. This isn’t funny. And shame on Theo Von for letting it go unchallenged and instead diving into conspiracy theories about Jews and Hollywood.”

Sarcasm or not, Roseanne Barr’s comments about Jews and the Holocaust are reprehensible and irresponsible. This isn’t funny. And shame on Theo Von for letting it go unchallenged and instead diving into conspiracy theories about Jews and Hollywood.

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) June 27, 2023

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The tight-knit community of Crum, West Virginia, was recently struck by a heartbreaking tragedy involving an 11-year-old and a family pet. After visiting relatives in the area for a few days, the victim and his brother, aged 12, were riding a side-by-side driven by their 18-year-old cousin’s boyfriend.

During the ride, a family dog jumped down onto the floorboard, stepped on the accelerator, and caused the vehicle to go off the road and over an embankment.

The two boys were accompanied on the journey by a woman and a 14-year-old girl on their own ATV, who witnessed the crash and contacted emergency services. When responders arrived on the scene, they found that the 11-year-old had suffered fatal injuries; the 12-year-old and 18-year-old both suffered non-life threatening conditions, and the dog escaped with minor injuries.

Assistant Chief of the Kermit Volunteer Fire Department, Wayne Williamson, spoke about the tragic event: “It is a shock to everyone in this small community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victim.” Many people in the area have been mourning the loss of the boy, who was taken all too soon and come together to do their best to support his loved ones during this difficult time.

This unfortunate incident serves as a reminder that life can be fragile and unpredictable, underscoring the importance of cherishing each moment.