Cardi B is being mocked for her response to the Karmelo Anthony verdict, with commenters saying she learned the exact wrong lesson from justice being served. “Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING,” she wrote on X soon after the verdict was read. “This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!” The rapper also hosted a live conversation on X on Wednesday, complaining about having to tell her sons it’s not okay to argue with white people. “I sure learned something from this. I learned to tell my sons, if a white boy … do not argue with no white boys … ‘cause baby, ain’t no law protecting you if something goes down with them. That’s what I learned from this case. I’mma tell my sons, you arguing with a white boy, walk the f*ck away. ‘Cause the law don’t protect you.”  Anthony, 19, was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a high school athlete, whom he fatally stabbed at a track and field meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison and has already filed an appeal.  While Anthony’s family claims he was targeted for his race and that Metcalf provoked him, video evidence reportedly shows that Anthony refused requests that he leave the track team’s tent before he stabbed Metcalf. The jury agreed that the killing was not self-defense, as Anthony’s defense and supporters claimed. Some social media users pointed out the flaws in Cardi B’s logic.  “In her dumb and convoluted way, she does seem to have inadvertently learned a good lesson — teach your kids not to stab other kids, because they will go to prison,” podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey observed. “I don’t know how but this trial and the aftermath have demonstrated a significant cultural problem within certain circles or communities. The outrage because this dude got pushed in high school and he wasn’t allowed to kill in response is about as big a red flag as you can find,” another person wrote.  “How about don’t stab and murder a white boy or murder anyone and then you don’t have to worry about a murder charge and being held accountable. Can she buy some common sense, I know she can afford it,” another person wrote.

WASHINGTON — One of Vice President JD Vance’s most trusted advisers is set to depart President Donald Trump’s administration by the end of this summer, flanked by the highest praise from the vice president and top cabinet officials. Jacob Reses told Vance several months ago that he planned to leave the administration after he and his wife learned they were expecting their first child. Reses has served as Vance’s chief of staff since January 2025 and has worked closely with him since Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio. “Jacob’s been by my side for my whole career in public life,” the vice president said. “I can’t imagine having been on this life-changing journey without him. From day one of my time as a Senator-elect, I could not have asked for a more loyal and discerning advisor and friend as my chief of staff.” “I’ll miss him dearly, but he won’t be far, and I plan to keep his counsel close until our paths cross again,” added Vance, who gave a toast at Reses’ wedding in January. Prior to his time working with Vance, Reses worked for Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, and for Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. Reses has been described by The New York Intelligencer as “one of the most influential Republican operatives in Washington,” focused on “helping the president’s heir apparent build the intellectual and ideological scaffolding for the post-Trump Republican Party.” During his time at the White House, Reses earned the trust and praise of many of Trump’s top officials, including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.   (Photo by Matt Rourke-Pool/Getty Images) Wiles called Reses “an important part of our White House leadership team” who has “served the vice president with absolute distinction,” as well as humility, discretion, and loyalty. “He will be missed in the halls of the West Wing, but he will always be a friend and ally we can all rely upon, and I hope will come back often,” Wiles said. Rubio said Reses served Vance and the whole administration with distinction. “He understands the moment we’re in, and he spent every day fighting to deliver results for the President,” Rubio said. “His intellect, leadership, and humor will be missed.” Bessent called Reses’s counsel “invaluable,” while Blanche described him as “tough, smart, hardworking, and loyal—the perfect combination to succeed in the Trump White House.” Witkoff, who traveled with Vance during foreign policy negotiations, praised Reses’s presence during those efforts. “Don’t let Jacob fool you — beneath his kind exterior, he’s a killer,” he said on Thursday. “It’s been a delight to get to know him through the vice president, and our foreign adventures from Israel to Pakistan have been historic.” “He commands respect in every room he walks into, and I’ve been proud to have him by my side in negotiating some of the toughest deals for the President,” Witkoff said, adding, “We haven’t seen the last of him.”

The Trump administration, in partnership with Amtrak, unveiled a plan earlier this week to renovate the world-renowned Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.  Penn Station, located in Trump’s hometown of New York City, is the busiest transportation center in the Western Hemisphere. It takes in roughly 600,000 commuters every workday, which is more than the amount of daily traffic at John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty airports combined, according to the Associated Press.  But in recent years, Penn Station has become a home for the homeless and violent criminals. The congested transit hub has been in the news recently for stabbings, confirming New Yorkers’ sentiments that the station is no longer safe. “It’s a sh*thole,” one law enforcement source lamented to The New York Post in 2021. “It’s drugs. They come from all over … Some are just homeless. Now that [Madison Square Garden] is open you’re going to see scalpers, hustlers, and the residual [violence].” Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY) spoke for many New Yorkers when he declared in 2021 that Penn Station has become “a dangerous dungeon,” adding, “I’ve been coming here for decades. It’s never been this bad.”  President Donald Trump wants to change that. “The Golden Age of Transportation is coming thanks to President Trump,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. “He had a vision to transform this dirty, falling-apart station in the middle of his hometown into a state-of-the-art transit hub that millions can enjoy for generations to come. American families deserve a safe, efficient, and clean commute to their homes, jobs, and churches.” LOOK at what is coming to New York City

An 18-year-old Wisconsin man was sentenced to life in prison last week after the brutal killing of a 5-year-old Milwaukee boy.  Erik Mendoza was 15 years old when he killed Prince McCree, who was reported missing by his mother in October 2023 after the boy went downstairs to play video games. Mendoza’s co-conspirator, David Pietura, also lived in the home with McCree and his mother. After McCree was reported missing, police found the boy’s body in a dumpster about a mile away from home. According to court documents, Mendoza confessed to choking McCree before repeatedly hitting him with a golf club.  The case changed Wisconsin law and led to the Prince Act, which expands the Amber Alerts system for missing children who do not meet the criteria. According to Amber Alert Wisconsin, the child must be 17 years of age or younger, in danger of serious bodily harm or death, and the initiating agency must have enough descriptive information about the child, the suspect and/or the suspect vehicle to believe an immediate broadcast alert will help locate the child.  The Milwaukee Police Department requested an Amber Alert for McCree, but their request was denied because his case did not fit the criteria listed. The Prince Act — or Senate Bill 981, now 2023 Wisconsin Act 272 — was signed by Governor Tony Evers to expand the Silver Alert to certain children. “An alert could be issued if the person is under the age of 18, their location is unknown, they do not otherwise qualify for another alert, and they are unable to return home without help because of a physical or mental condition, disability, or age.” The act helped to “ensure authorities in future missing child cases have expanded resources to issue quicker and more robust alert notices to the public, hopefully ensuring kids are able to be quickly located and returned home safely in the future.”  After the murder, Mendoza and Pietura disposed of the boy’s body, and surveillance of the area showed them in an alley with a white garbage bag the same day that McCree disappeared, according to court documents.  The prosecutors jumped on the opportunity to mention that Pietura initially told investigators that he and Mendoza went for a walk, but cellphone GPS data refuted his claim. Pietura eventually led police to where they had left McCree’s body. In 2024, Pietura pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to life in prison.  Earlier this year, Mendoza pleaded guilty to “first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse, and three counts of second-degree recklessly endangering safety in the death of Prince McCree,” according to WISN. Mendoza will not be eligible to petition for his release for 50 years.  During the hearing last Friday, the boy’s parents, Darron McCree and Jordan Barger, gave very emotional victim impact statements. “What I wanna say is, I wish this guy would die and burn, no mercy,” McCree said. “I wish I could do it with my hands. When he killed my baby, he killed me.”  “What happened to Prince shouldn’t happen to any child,” Barger said in the press release. “The current alert system failed him and failed our family, and I hope that with this new law, more families will get the attention and resources they need to bring their kids home safely.”

Federal authorities recently uncovered a scheme carried out by court officials in Utah who helped illegal immigrants evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Jennifer Joma, 27, and Lauren Kelsey Morrow, 26, have been charged with assisting several illegal immigrants avoid arrest after ICE agents arrived at the Logan City Municipal Justice Court on April 9, according to the Justice Department. When ICE agents showed up at the courthouse with an administrative warrant to arrest an illegal immigrant inside, Joma and Morrow allegedly misused court databases to identify who was illegally in the United States before escorting them out of the building, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. According to prosecutors, the two women began intercepting illegal immigrants, including ICE’s target, as they were leaving the courthouse and then moved them down several hallways before helping them slip through the back door, allowing them to avoid federal agents. Two Former Utah Court Clerks Arrested and Facing Federal Charges after Allegedly Helping Illegal Aliens Evade ICE Arrest PRESS RELEASE: