A 30-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia faces three counts of second-degree murder after allegedly opening fire inside his apartment complex’s leasing office in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday, taking the lives of three staff members following a disagreement over a garage parking contract. Authorities arrested Tsegaab Binessu, a former truck driver, in the city of Virginia, Minnesota, about 200 miles away from the crime scene, The New York Post reported. He was apprehended driving a vehicle belonging to one of the victims. According to charging documents, the murderous spree stemmed from a $65-a-month parking garage agreement. Binessu, who was preparing to enlist in the U.S. Navy, contacted the leasing office seeking to terminate the agreement. Staff members informed him that cancellation was not possible because he had recently renewed the contract. Binessu then informed workers he was heading down to the office in person to discuss the matter. Surveillance footage captured Binessu speaking with community manager Adam “AJ” Wilwerding, 43, and assistant manager Dena Silcox, 56. Video shows the suspect lifting his shirt, drawing a firearm, and shooting both employees, according to authorities. According to the criminal complaint, Binessu shot Wilwerding at least six times, including three times after Wilwerding fell to the ground, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. Silcox was shot five times “in rapid succession,” and then hit a sixth time as she attempted to get away from Binessu, according to the complaint. The camera then allegedly captured him moving toward a back room where 25-year-old staff member Nansi Fuentes Zambrano was trying to escape through a window. She was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators recovered 21 spent shell casings at the scene. Police were alerted after receiving multiple emergency calls reporting gunshots and screaming. Binessu’s roommate also contacted law enforcement, reporting that Binessu had confessed to the shooting during a phone call and said he was attempting to turn himself in. During police interrogations, Binessu expressed frustration with the American immigration system, explaining that a seven-year struggle to bring his wife and children from Ethiopia had ultimately ruined his marriage. Documents reveal he said he had been unfairly treated because of his race, stating that he felt he had lost everything that mattered to him, including his family, business, and peace of mind. He did not offer a full formal confession to police. Residents in the Highland Park community organized vigils and memorials outside the office, remembering the victims. Binessu is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on Wednesday. If convicted, he faces up to 40 years in prison for each murder charge.

For a left preaching tolerance, the emotionally stunted quackery emanating from the mouths of “I’ve Had It” podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and the cackling, near-mute sidekick Angie “Pumps” Sullivan proves it’s a pants-on-fire farce. On Monday, Welch promulgated a conspiracy theory from the bowels of her Luciferian sense of punditry that Vice President JD Vance and Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk are far more than just friends. Welch extrapolated the Vances deciding to have a fourth child following Charlie’s assassination as something beyond the regret Erika had about only having two children: I want to remind you guys that Erika Kirk practically dry humped the vice president on stage at one of those Turning Point events. You remember the way she, like, grabbed his head and how excited she was to see him, and everybody’s like, oh my God, are they screwing? Like that energy is weird. Well then, a couple of months later, Usha ends up pregnant. Like, the timing of all of that, could you imagine if Kamala was embracing somebody like that on the stage somewhere … Look at that. You don’t hug a person. You’re not screwing and grow up with her hair like that. “JD Vance is a weird guy. I mean, he is so weird. The relationship is with Usha is weird, roping in Erika Kirk into their relationship that she’s there, like — what — birthing coach or something. I mean, that was some weird sh*t,” she later added. Despite the vitriol, they’ve been heralded by elite media. Welch has been given hero’s welcomes by ABC’s “The View,” CNN’s Dana Bash, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, to name a few. And there’s been utter silence from this crowd about the comments. But this wasn’t the first time Welch and Sullivan went after the Vance family. During a November 2025 show, Joy Reid told the cackling quacks that the vice president will divorce Usha if he truly wants to become president and instead marry Erika Kirk because MAGA “can’t have the successor” to Trump “be the guy with the brown, Hindu wife.” “And he’s playing slap and tickle with Erica Kirk, the weirdest sh*t I’ve ever seen,” Welch declared, to which Reid said Charlie’s widow dispensed with “widow wear” in search of her “MAGA fairy tale.” “But wouldn’t it be the most perfect fairy tale — MAGA fairy tale if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu? I mean, I’m not saying that’s happening,” Reid said. Yes, Welch believes the Vances had another child because something untoward happened last year involving the vice president. When you’re resorting to demented nightmares that might give the National Enquirer pause, you know you’re far more than just a prepubescent lunchroom bully. Welch addressed the new lamb for the Vance family a second time, except this time with the vacuous Sullivan alongside. She told listeners this fourth “mixed-race child” could fall prey to ICE because of their father’s support for “the Kavanaugh rule … that ICE can pull somebody over that ‘looks suspicious.’” Because of this, she asserted Vance “will not stand up for [his] own kids.” Sullivan wasn’t to be left out, declaring Vance a “failed” father and husband. Dovetail this with her ongoing shtick that widespread numbers of MAGA men are closeted, and you have proof that, for the Left, homophobia and racism are not only okay, but accepted so long as it’s framed and delivered in a manner that would make Regina George blush. Welch and her clapping seal of a sidekick asserted on October 27, 2025, that Democrats need to “get on board” with the “shift” toward political assassinations or MAGA will be “coming after you.” A month later in the Reid episode, they said MAGA is willing to “commit jihad” for “proto-fascist” Trump and thus are incapable of being “patriotic.” To their delight, Reid asserted: “The fear is that if you don’t obey [Trump], his cult will try to kill you … MAGA supporters are armed to the teeth. They are rabid in their support of him, and it’s a religion.” Welch told “The View” in February 2025 she and Sullivan perceive “I’ve Had It” as “authentic trash talking” and “counterprogramming to the toxic positivity culture.” But with “I’ve Had It,” defamatory allegations are in, along with homophobia so long as the accused gay is a Republican. They frequently refer to Speaker Mike Johnson as “Moses Mike Grindr Johnson,” insisting outright he and other Hill Republicans are fervent homosexuals. In the same show with Reid, they declared without evidence the Epstein Files proved the president has given blowjobs. For their funhouse mirror dystopia, gay jokes are in, but say “illegal immigrant,” and that’s on-par with the n-word. And I haven’t even touched their comments about homeschooling as “trickle-down stupidity” and “a patriarchal step of the fascist project” overseen by people who are “f*cking weird as f*ck that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night.” Despite all this, they’re the new cool kids. They’ve welcomed on fellow liberal podcasters such as Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Sam Seder, and Emma Vigeland, fellow liberals such as Brooke Baldwin, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Daily Beast editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, Leigh McGowan, David Rothkopf, Al Sharpton, Jason Stanley, Kara Swisher, and even members of Congress such as Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Simply put, they’re not going anywhere, so it’s past time someone took these miserable psychopaths to court for defamation. *** Curtis Houck is the managing editor of NewsBusters.

In a blistering showdown on Tuesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a reality check to Senate Democrats, demanding to know if they would rather play partisan politics than stop a rogue regime from acquiring nuclear weapons. Facing off against Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) during a heated Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Hegseth cut through hours of budget bickering with a defense of the administration’s strategy to neutralize the Iranian threat. Prior to the exchange with Shaheen, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) had blustered, “Let me also say we’re in a moment in history where we can win the war in Ukraine. That victory would be critically important for those people who have fought for more than four years against the odds and proven they can put him back on his heels. But instead of finding the money that they need now for air defenses, we’re putting more money into this exchange with Iran, a war of choice which we never should have entered.” Shaheen later followed by ranting, “At what point do you stop asking Americans to foot the bill for a war they don’t support on top of an inflated budget request and billions in reconciliation funds that you still haven’t spent?” Hegseth fired back, challenging the notion that somehow the war in Ukraine should supersede the war against a nuclear threat to America. “One of the reasons I take issue with that characterization is something that Senator Durbin said when he talked about Ukraine. And he talked about winning,” Hegseth said. “And I appreciate as much as anybody winning a war. I sit in front of a committee that wants to talk about winning a war that’s been going on for four years and talks about the strategic defeat of a conflict that’s been going on for four months to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. I would hope for some perspective in this town of the historic nature of what President Trump is undertaking. Do you want radical Islamists to have a nuclear bomb that can stare down the world?” By putting the nuclear threat front and center, Hegseth left the committee with a stark choice: stop quibbling over spreadsheets and back the commander-in-chief, or answer to the American public when a radical regime gets its hands on the ultimate weapon.

Unlike so many professional female athletes, WNBA star Sophie Cunningham is not afraid to stand up for the protection of female athletes. The Indiana Fever guard says that while her politics are “middle” of the road, she feels compelled to speak out on the matter. “I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,'” Cunningham said in an interview with ESPN published Tuesday, referring to her position on women’s sports. “I think that I am here to extend love,” she continued. “But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.” “I’m very much in the middle [politically],” the Missouri native said after an ESPN interviewer said some people view her as Right-wing or “MAGA.” “I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides,” Cunningham added. “And that’s all I’ve ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume.” Christian Petersen/Getty Images Cunningham’s position runs counter to that of the WNBA. Not only has the organization signaled its devotion to so-called LGBT activism, but the league’s players’ union, the WNBPA, has explicitly advocated for transgender “inclusion.” In 2022, the union issued a statement railing against laws that protect girls’ sports and emphasizing its commitment to “fight for trans youth across the country.” Individual players have also promoted males in female sports. Former WNBA player Layshia Clarendon and current Las Vegas Aces forward Brianna Turner, for example, wrote a 2024 CNN opinion piece urging the NCAA to allow males in these female spaces. Cunningham, though, is authentically herself — even when that runs counter to the WNBA norm. “You see so many people change or try to fit into a box,” she said. “I don’t even know what that box is. It’s a fake box. Everyone wants to look the same. Everyone wants the same vibe. Screw that. I’m gonna be me.” “People love me or they really frickin’ hate me,” Cunningham added. “I just don’t care.” As highlighted by The Daily Wire earlier this month, the WNBA standout refused to publicly criticize President Donald Trump, again breaking with many players in the league. “Did you see the one with the White House posted, with the president in it, and did you have any thoughts on it?” a reporter asked Cunningham about her viral “pointing” meme. The athlete responded, “I think everyone around the world is posting it, every company has done it, they’re just the ones also to get on board and I don’t really think twice about it.” Sophie Cunningham holds up a ring card before a lightweight UFC bout. Credit: Ian Maule/Getty Images Cunningham’s bold stance earned praise on social media. Female sports advocate Riley Gaines commented, “In a world full of Megan Rapinoes, be a Sophie Cunningham.” Rapinoe, the former U.S. soccer star, advocates for males in girls’ sports. Related: WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham Won’t Diss Trump After White House Meme

A former NFL kicker endorsed by President Donald Trump won the GOP nomination for a highly competitive House seat in Arizona on Tuesday night.  Jay Feely, who played 14 seasons in the NFL, will attempt to keep Arizona’s 1st Congressional District Republican in November. The district’s current representative, Republican David Schweikert, did not run for re-election, choosing instead to mount a run for governor.  “Thank you, Arizona! I am truly humbled by this massive outpouring of support. It is time for Republicans to unite, we have a lot of work to do between now and November to ensure we keep this crucial seat RED!” Feely said Tuesday night.  Feely defeated former state Rep. Joseph Chaplik, a founding member of the Arizona Freedom Caucus endorsed by the NRA, and John Trobough, a business executive. He won 49.7% of the vote to Chaplik’s 35.6% and Trobough’s 14.6%.  His opponent in the general election will either be former state Rep. Amish Shah or former TV journalist Marlene Galán-Woods. While Shah currently leads by seven points, the race has not yet been called.  Trump endorsed Feely in January 2026, calling him a “fierce” MAGA advocate who “would work tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Champion American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment.” Feely emphasized his Trump endorsement throughout the primary and said he would be able to call him once in Congress.  “Who can call [Trump] and who can get him to answer? That’s me,” he said during a debate. “He will take my call and he will listen. I have the ability to have the ear of the president.” Feely’s campaign website lists his priorities as border security, cutting regulations, keeping men out of women’s sports, increasing energy production, and standing with Israel.  The district, which covers large swaths of Maricopa county, went for Schweikert in 2024 by roughly four points and Democrats are focusing on it as one of their key targets. Feely played with six different teams through his NFL career which stretched from 2001 to 2014, including four years for the Atlanta Falcons, two years for the New York Giants, two years for the New York Jets, and four seasons for the Arizona Cardinals. He scored 1,445 points throughout his career and made 82.6% of his field goal attempts.  Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, easily defeated Schweikert in the race to take on Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs in November.