A 23-year-old woman in New York City said she did not want to cooperate with prosecutors after a man attacked her on the subway because she did not want to “put another black man in jail.” The same suspect is now accused of pushing a 76-year-old man to his death at a Chelsea station. The New York Post interviewed the unidentified woman, who recounted a harrowing experience with a friend on a Manhattan subway. On April 2, the suspect, Rhamell Burke, a former Broadway dancer who fell off during the pandemic, approached the woman and her friend and tried to strike up a conversation. The two shut him down and tried to move to another subway car, according to The Post. The alleged attacker didn’t take no for an answer. Burke, according to the woman, yanked the back of her head and kicked her friend.  “He comes up, and he kicks my friend in the back, and basically pushes him through the transition of the cars,” the woman said in an interview with The Post. “My friend freaks out, runs away, and then he grabs me by the head and pushes my head down, trying to, like, maybe throw me on the ground or something. But I didn’t, I resisted as much as I could. I didn’t fall, and then I immediately opened up the car and then ran towards my friend,” she said to The Post.  The woman and her friend got off the train at the West 4th Street–Washington Square station in Greenwich Village, but Burke followed them, she said. “We started running a little bit, but then thank God the cops were right there because, I mean, we kept thinking about, imagine that there were no cops, we would have had to literally run for our lives. They immediately arrested him. It was shut down really fast by the cops, and we respected that,” the woman said.  Cooperation with law enforcement appeared to stop there. The alleged female victim declined to cooperate with prosecutors, and the same suspect is now accused of fatally shoving 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs at Manhattan’s 18th Street subway station. Falzone, a retired high school teacher who lived alone, landed on his head at the bottom of the stairs and sustained a traumatic brain injury, a fractured spine, and a fractured rib, according to the New York Times. He later died from his injuries.  NEW: Repeat offender and Broadway dancer shoves a 76-year-old retired teacher down New York City subway stairs, killing him. 32-year-old Rhamell Burke was seen grinning in court after allegedly carrying out the horrific murder. The victim, Ross Falzone, was a social worker for… pic.twitter.com/cBlbscyOOW — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 11, 2026 Three months before the deadly attack, Burke had been arrested four times, including for assault on a police officer. New York Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was “horrified” by the killing and called for an investigation into whether the tragedy could have been prevented. “New Yorkers deserve answers,” Mamdani said in a statement. “That is why I’ve directed NYC Health + Hospitals to conduct both an immediate investigation on what steps should have been taken to prevent this tragedy and a comprehensive review of their psychiatric evaluation and discharge protocols.”   Police had previously taken Burke to a hospital after he was observed “acting erratically.” About an hour later, he was released and allegedly carried out the deadly attack later that night, according to the New York Post. “I regret it 100%, and I actually feel really bad that a man lost his life,” the woman said of her decision not to cooperate with prosectors. “Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy.”

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly accused Sen. Mark Kelly of disclosing classified information after the Arizona Democrat discussed depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles during a Sunday television interview, escalating a months-long feud that has increasingly elevated Kelly’s national profile. Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Kelly warned that the recent conflict with Iran had significantly drained American munitions reserves, specifically naming Tomahawk cruise missiles, Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), SM-3 interceptors, THAAD rounds, and Patriot missiles. Mark Kelly alleges America is “less safe” because our “munitions are depleted” due to the Iran conflict: “This President got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and because of that, we’ve expended a lot of munitions, and that means… pic.twitter.com/k3tpvN8Kw4 — Julia

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed Monday to plead Jimmy Lai’s case to Chinese President Xi JinPing, telling The Daily Wire, “I’m going to bring his name up.” The president discussed his upcoming trip to China during an Oval Office announcement on maternal healthcare. When the president took questions from reporters, the Daily Wire told Trump that Claire Lai, Jimmy Lai’s adult daughter, believes that Trump has the power to free her father, a Catholic media tycoon imprisoned by the Chinese government. “He has very much earned the title of liberator in chief,” she told The Daily Wire on Monday morning. “I believed and dad believed it would be this administration that would free him.” Trump promised that he would speak to President Xi about Lai, who is 78 years old. In February, Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison under a national security law used by the Chinese Communist Party to crack down on dissenters. Given his age and declining health, the CCP’s sentence means he’ll die in prison — unless Trump can save him. “There’s another gentleman, a minister, a pastor, as you know,” Trump pointed out to The Daily Wire, referring to Pastor Ezra Jin, who is also unjustly imprisoned. “I’ll bring them both up.” President Trump tells @MaryMargOlohan that he would like to see Jimmy Lai freed from jail: “People would like him out, and I’d like to see him get out too. I’ll bring him up again.” pic.twitter.com/yYlgrA0vof — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 11, 2026 “Somebody has to ask him,” the president added. “Biden never asked. We asked, and we were getting hundreds of people out of confinement and prisons that shouldn’t be there. And hundreds — and many of them aren’t even citizens of the United States. There are people that have been captured in some form, ministers, and people that are really innocent people, and they’re being held captive. And I bring up Jimmy.” Trump’s next comments suggested that Xi might be loath to part with his political prisoner, who was targeted by the Chinese government for his pro-democracy activism. “Now, Jimmy Lai, you know, did — he caused a lot of bedlam,” Trump added. “You know, I don’t know. It’s like saying to me, if Comey ever went to jail, would you let him out? Eh, that’s — it might be a hard one for me. Does that make sense? It might be hard with me, you know, because he’s a dirty cop.” “But Jimmy Lai isn’t that way,” Trump continued. “But Jimmy Lai — he caused lots of turmoil for China. He tried to do the right thing. He wasn’t successful. He went to jail, and people would like him out. And I’d like to see him get out too. So, I’ll bring him up again. I have brought him up. There’s another gentleman, a pastor, as you know, with a beautiful daughter and son-in-law that would like to see him get out. I’m going to bring his name up.” Lai is a Chinese-born British citizen who published “Apple Daily” in Hong Kong from 1995 to 2021. Chinese authorities arrested top executives at the publication and froze its assets in 2021, and, after a two-year trial and five-year detention, Lai was convicted in December 2025 of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and publish seditious material. He is considered the most high-profile political prisoner in Hong Kong. Trump will arrive in China on Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning, he will participate in a welcome ceremony and a bilateral meeting with President Xi, then tour the Temple of Heaven with President Xi on Thursday afternoon, and that evening, he will attend a state banquet. Trump will participate in a bilateral tea and working lunch with President Xi on Friday morning before heading home. The White House expects to host President Xi and his wife, Madam Peng Liyuan, for a reciprocal visit in D.C. later this year.

Cruise ship passengers traveling to the Bahamas on Tuesday, May 12, may be having a little bit less fun than usual. That’s because the nation will be suspending all alcohol sales that day as they hold elections. Per Fox News Digital, the ban on selling alcoholic beverages will be in effect from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. This will include all popular hot spots and even private islands. “Any person selling or exposing or offering for sale any intoxicating liquor during such hours shall be deemed to be so doing while not holding a license under the provisions of the Business License Act,” a notice from the Parliamentary Commissioner said.  Two Royal Caribbean ships, Oasis of the Seas and Wonder of the Seas, will be visiting their private island CocoCay while the ban is in effect, the outlet noted. Cruise lines will be permitted to sell alcoholic beverages on board their ships, but anyone who disembarks won’t be ordering any cocktails on dry land for all of Tuesday.  “Royal Caribbean is respecting and complying with all local laws and regulations, as we do with every destination we visit,” a spokesperson for the popular cruise company said. Predictably, travelers who were unaware of the alcohol ban are not pleased, with one saying her husband is “p*ssed.”  “We scheduled a trip with stops in the Bahamas for our 40th anniversary. We are going with 26 of our friends. Planned activities at CocoCay and Nassau,” one traveler shared on X. “The general election has banned all alcohol for the two days we are there. And we find out only two days before we leave? Not a way to treat customers who cruise four times a year.” Cruise ships are not having a good year, PR wise. Last week it was reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents raided five cruise ships, including one Disney cruise ship, as they identified predators viewing and distributing child sexual exploitation material. This led to 28 arrests. On top of that, a luxury cruise ship was hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak in what’s been described as a “nightmare at sea.” The vessel was effectively stranded at sea while governments and health agencies coordinated where passengers could safely disembark and quarantine. At least nine confirmed or suspected cases have now been linked to the outbreak, including three fatalities.

Gavin Newsom has, once again, found himself diaper-deep in someone else’s business. The California governor, who is nearing the end of a gubernatorial tenure best described as a masterclass in managed decline, presided over rampant homelessness, a record exodus of residents, a near $30 billion budget deficit, a housing affordability crisis, dismal education scores, and a surge in violent crime. Now, rather than reckoning with any of that, he has taken to social media to unveil his newest meretricious title: Diaper Daddy. California’s unmasked Super Conman, able to leap tall budget deficits in a single bound to deliver diapers to all…while leaving actual human waste on the sidewalks entirely untouched. The initiative itself is a pitch-perfect distillation of modern Democrat governance: announce something that sounds warmhearted, execute it at roughly three times the necessary cost, layer it in politically connected middlemen, waste everyone’s time and money, and call dissenters “heartless monsters.” This time, however, the math raises more than an eyebrow. It raises the specter of fraud. Newsom announced a pilot diaper program that will initially roll out at hospitals largely serving Medi-Cal patients before expanding statewide. This summer, the state is partnering with Baby2Baby, a California-based nonprofit, to give every newborn delivered at a participating California hospital 400 diapers at no cost to the family. Budget records show $7.4 million was allocated in the prior fiscal year (2025-2026) to launch the initiative, with an additional $12.5 million proposed for the 2026-2027 budget cycle, bringing the total commitment to roughly $19.9 million. This is all on top of the $45 billion California taxpayers already pour into Medi-Cal every year. But hey, the weather is unbeatable! When people started doing the math, the flags went up fast. Divide $20 million by 100,000 babies, then divide that by 400 diapers each, and you arrive at $0.50 per diaper. The cheapest diapers on store shelves cost around $0.15 each.  A FIFTEEN-CENT diaper for just FIFTY CENTS!? What a bargain. Now, had the state simply handed parents the money to buy their own poo-catchers and let the free market do what the free market does, competition would have driven prices down further and quality up! The people would have won. Instead, the government decided it needed to get its hands into America’s smelliest supply chain, and turned a $0.15 product into a $0.50 one. Government efficiency, folks. On full display. When pressed on the numbers, Newsom’s press office clarified that the diaper contract itself only costs $6.2 million, which works out to roughly $0.155 per diaper, still more than retail. But that admission quietly concedes the obvious question: where does the other $13 million go? The answer, according to the administration, is setup, hospital rollout, logistics, warehousing, and distribution, all of which are superfluous costs that would not exist if parents were allowed to keep their money and buy their own diapers in the first place. Diaper Daddy could focus on getting Drug Demons off the streets and clearing the actual feces off the sidewalks, but hey, at least he’s not giving taxpayer-funded diapers to drug addicts. Yet.  Then there is the matter of who is running Baby2Baby. The nonprofit is led by Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein. Weinstein also sits on the board of the California Partners Project, co-founded by her BFF Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the insufferable wife of Gavin Newsom, where they fundraise and promote for the trans, gender-confused intersex folk, and the women who are supposed victims of the nefarious patriarchal powers that be. Patricof, for her part, is married to Jamie Patricof, a Hollywood big-shot producer and longtime Democratic bundler with very deep ties to the party elites. Straight Californicorruption. Here is the Democratic playbook, for those keeping score at home: announce a program that makes you look compassionate, overbill the taxpayer for something families could’ve handled themselves, insert a layer of politically connected middlemen, feed the bureaucratic boondoggles, and enrich oneself at the expense of the taxpayer. The citizen funds the apparatus. The apparatus benefits the network. The network attends the fundraiser. Repeat! Gavin, most of us love babies and new life. We’d love to see more of it. Why don’t you do what President Donald Trump is doing and cut checks directly to parents of newborns, or partner with the Trump accounts to make savings vehicles more accessible to California families, so that newborns can be sitting on meaningful sums by the time they turn 18? Or, radically, just let taxpayers keep their money, buy whatever product they want, drive competition, keep the free market functioning, and deny corrupt bureaucrats the pleasure of rerouting public funds through nonprofits within their own orbit. But no, that would be crazy. This is, after all, the same governor who spent hundreds of millions turning California into the West Coast’s premier abortion destination. Nothing says “pro-family” quite like subsidizing diapers for the babies you worked so hard to make rarer. But perhaps there is some poetic justice here. This summer, every time a new parent wipes a stinky, smelly, loaded diaper, they’ll be reminded of Gavin Newsom — and exactly where their tax dollars went.