The family of accused murderer Karmelo Anthony appears to be amping up allegations of racial bias after reports indicated Wednesday that no black jurors have been selected for Anthony’s trial. Anthony, a 19-year-old black male, was charged with first-degree murder after he fatally stabbed high school student Austin Metcalf, who is white, at a track event in April 2025 in Frisco, Texas. Anthony’s defense team challenged the prosecution striking potential black jurors from the jury pool, according to FOX 4. The judge denied the challenge, since jury selection was not based on race. A spokesman for the Anthony family, Dominique Alexander, took to numerous social media platforms to complain about the jury selection. On X, he reposted a statement from Next Generation Action Network, an organization for which he serves as president.  “The Next Generation Action Network is outraged by today’s jury selection process in the Karmelo Anthony trial,” the statement said. “The prosecution used its final strikes to remove the remaining qualified Black jurors from the jury pool, raising serious concerns about fairness and equal justice.” “We respect the court, but we will not remain silent,” the statement continued. “NGAN will continue monitoring this case and informing the public every step of the way. Every person deserves a fair trial and confidence that justice is being administered without bias. We are calling on the court to ensure Mr. Anthony’s constitutional rights are fully protected. #FairTrial #EqualJustice #NGAN.” The Next Generation Action Network is outraged by today’s jury selection process in the Karmelo Anthony trial. The prosecution used its final strikes to remove the remaining qualified Black jurors from the jury pool, raising serious concerns about fairness and equal justice. We… — Next Generation Action Network (NGAN) (@NextGenAction) June 3, 2026 Journalist Sarah Fields reported on Wednesday that no black jurors had been selected, and the jury will not be sequestered for the trial. “The jury has been selected in the Karmelo Anthony trial,” she posted online. “Karmelo Anthony supporters are angry because there are no African Americans on the jury.” “Also, up until now, we were under the impression that the jury would be sequestered. They were not,” Fields added. “This means jurors will return home each day rather than being isolated for the duration of the trial.” BREAKING: The jury has been selected in the Karmelo Anthony trial. Karmelo Anthony supporters are angry because there are no African Americans on the jury. Also, up until now, we were under the impression that the jury would be sequestered. They were not. This means jurors… — Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) June 3, 2026 About two weeks after Metcalf was killed, Alexander held a jarring press conference on behalf of the Anthony family. He stoked racial tensions and scolded Jeff Metcalf, the father of the slain teen, for asking if he could pray with the Anthony family. Metcalf was removed from the presser. As previously noted by The Daily Wire, Alexander has a disturbing criminal history himself, including a conviction for child abuse involving his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, who suffered a brain bleed. He was also indicted in 2019 on a felony family-violence charge involving allegations by a former girlfriend. The killing of Metcalf has garnered national attention, including scrutiny of the coverage from legacy media, which routinely highlights and escalates white-on-black incidents. In this case, mainstream outlets were largely silent on the incident, seemingly because Anthony is black and Metcalf is white. According to eyewitness accounts, the confrontation between Metcalf and Anthony began when Metcalf told Anthony to leave his team’s tented area during the track meet. It’s unclear if Metcalf touched Anthony at all before the stabbing. Witnesses told investigators that Anthony threatened Metcalf, pulled out a knife, stabbed him, and ran from the scene. Metcalf later died in his twin brother’s arms. Anthony admitted to police that he stabbed Metcalf, reportedly telling officers, “I’m not alleged, I did it.” The 19-year-old is being tried as an adult and is facing life behind bars. Related: ‘Free’ Karmelo: Supporters Of Austin Metcalf’s Accused Killer Gather Outside Courthouse

President Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social broadside on Thursday, accusing California Democrats of stealing the state’s gubernatorial primary — and given the Golden State’s long, sordid history of electoral shenanigans, he’s got plenty of reason to be suspicious. “There’s BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California,” Trump posted. “Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???” The results from Tuesday’s jungle primary are indeed dragging. With all precincts partially reporting in the governor’s race, Trump-endorsed Republican TV host Steve Hilton leads the pack with 27.6% of the vote, while former Biden Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra sits in second at 25.6% — each clearing 1.3 million votes. Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer lurks in third at 19.8%, and since most California ballots are cast by mail — with postmarked ballots accepted up to a week after Election Day — the final two finalists advancing to November are far from settled. If the results hold, California gets the rare spectacle of a true Republican vs. Democrat November showdown, with Hilton facing Becerra for the seat being vacated by term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom. Becerra, if he wins in November, would be the first Latino elected governor of a state where 40% of residents are Hispanic. Hilton — a British-born former Fox News host who became a U.S. citizen in 2021 — is hoping to follow fellow immigrant and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to Sacramento. Trump celebrated Hilton’s early lead, posting that the former television commentator “will turn California around, quickly — and the Federal Government will be there, with him, to help!” But Trump’s fraud allegations aren’t coming out of nowhere. California Democrats have spent years engineering the electoral deck. In November 2025, voters passed Proposition 50 — dubbed the “Election Rigging Response Act” — which suspended California’s independent redistricting commission and handed Democrats control of a new congressional map explicitly designed to flip five Republican-held House seats. Newsom and former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi championed it. Former California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposed it. It passed with 64% of the vote in an election that the state mailed ballots to all voters. Then, in February 2026, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — himself a Republican gubernatorial candidate — executed search warrants and seized 650,000 ballots from that very Prop 50 election after a citizen watchdog group identified a stunning discrepancy: 45,896 more votes tallied than physical ballots received. California’s Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta immediately moved to block the count — and the ballots were scheduled for destruction in May. The question that hangs in the air: if the results were clean, why fight so hard to stop someone from counting the paper? California’s electoral history offers other reasons for suspicion. In the 2024 congressional elections, Democrats flipped three Republican House seats — including one by a paper-thin 187-vote margin that wasn’t called until a month after Election Day, with both parties deploying armies of staffers to “cure” flagged mail ballots. More Democratic ballots were cured than Republican ones — by a margin exceeding the final vote spread. Republicans are energized heading into November. Early turnout data from the primary showed the GOP outpacing Democrats in several key counties. But in California, where mail ballots arrive for weeks and ballot-curing operations can erase narrow deficits, election night results have a funny way of shifting in Democrats’ favor by the time the last envelope is opened.

The votes have not yet been fully counted in Los Angeles, but that has not stopped mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt from dropping a serious challenge on incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Pratt, who holds a seven-point lead over democratic socialist city councilwoman Nithya Raman, appears poised to hold onto second place and face Bass in a runoff in November’s general election, and he wants to debate her — weekly, if possible — until then. WATCH: Reporter: “Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?” Spencer Pratt: “I love debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC and Fox. We can do debates every Friday if she would like. Because this actually became my most favorite thing to do.” “So yes, as many… pic.twitter.com/qkf7HiTSTh — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) June 3, 2026 “Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?” a reporter asked Pratt on Tuesday evening outside his primary election night party. “And what do you want to tell her if she sees this?” “I loved debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC, and Fox,” Pratt replied. “We can do debates every Friday if she would like, because it’s actually become my favorite thing to do. So, yes, as many debates as Mayor Bass would like.” “What would you like to tell her now that it’s on?” the reporter asked. “She knows it’s on. I hope she’s ready, you know, because I am — I literally could not be more excited,” the former MTV reality star added. As the evening went on, Pratt voiced confidence that he would ultimately be the one to face Bass in November — and he declared that he was more than ready to do so: “I am ready for whatever God puts in front of me … I was going to be happy if I wasn’t moving forward, but now I feel very confident.” As of Thursday morning, with 62% of the vote counted, Bass was leading the field with 35% of the vote and had already been projected to move on to the runoff in the general election. Pratt followed with 29.9% of the vote, holding just over a seven-point lead on Raman, who had 22.8%. The mail-in ballots, which are likely to favor Bass and Raman over Pratt, are what remain to be counted — and could take days, as signatures must be verified prior to the ballots being counted. If Bass succeeds in earning more than 50% of the vote, she could avoid a November runoff altogether. If she doesn’t, she will be the first incumbent Los Angeles mayor to be forced into a runoff in 21 years.

The remains of a missing woman who worked at a sensitive U.S. nuclear development lab were found decaying in a forest in New Mexico on Monday in a “skeletonized” state, according to The Daily Mail. Melissa Casias, a 54-year-old administrative assistant at Los Alamos, was found dead in Carson National Forest, with her body propped up against a tree near an abandoned gun, per the Mail. She was found with a visible gunshot to her skull in the remote part of the Carson National Forest, local officials said. Casias’ body reportedly didn’t show any signs of animal activity even though her body was left to decompose in the forest. The 54-year-old mother was last seen on June 26, 2025. Thomas McNally, the former homicide detective who is helping Casias’ family with the case, told the outlet he suspects foul play, even hinting that Casias’ family will file a civil lawsuit against the New Mexico State Police for essentially botching the case. The discovery of Casias’ body comes after a slew of mysterious disappearances related to scientists and employees who worked at sensitive nuclear or space technology labs. Just weeks before Casias vanished, a former Los Alamos employee, 79-year-old Anthony Chavez, disappeared in a similar manner. Chavez went missing after he left his home on foot on May 4, 2025. Police have said that no foul play is suspected in Chavez’s case. Casias worked as an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the site made famous during World War II for the Manhattan Project. The lab remains closely tied to U.S. nuclear weapon development. The day Casias went missing she wiped her phones before leaving them behind, along with her ID when she walked out of her house that is settled in a remote community around 70 miles northeast of Santa Fe, The New York Post reported. Just before she was last seen, Casias dropped off her husband, who worked at the same lab as her, at work before claiming she forgot her work badge and had to return home. McNally told the Mail that Casias and her husband were arguing over a vape pen on their way to work. The investigator claims Casias’ daughter, Sierra, saw her mom when she came back home and Casias looked “totally normal.” The last known sighting of the wife and mother was June 26 at 2:20 p.m. local time. While McNally was looking into her disappearance, Casias’ husband claimed she was “running around with a boyfriend somewhere” and authorities believed the narrative, according to McNally.

When Spencer Pratt advanced through the primary, plenty of political insiders and even the mainstream media rolled their eyes. They shouldn’t have. Reality television may be one of the most underrated training grounds for modern political leadership. Long before social media turned every American into a content creator, reality television was teaching people how to communicate directly with audiences, withstand relentless criticism, manage public perception, and remain accountable under constant public scrutiny. Every word, every decision, and every unscripted moment is dissected in real time. Few traditional career paths prepare someone for the realities of modern politics more effectively. As a former contestant on ABC’s The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise, I’ve experienced that pressure firsthand. I know what it’s like to have strangers form opinions about your character based on a few edited moments on television. I’ve lived through the criticism, the public scrutiny, and the challenge of navigating both a national and international audience in real time. That’s why I view reality television differently from many political insiders, not as a punchline but as a crash course in resilience, communication, and public accountability. President Donald Trump shattered the old political paradigm. He proved that voters were hungry for nontraditional leaders from outside the Beltway — anti-establishment candidates forged in business, media, and entertainment rather than lifelong political insiders. Americans value authenticity and the ability to communicate directly over polished résumés and institutional approval. That shift has only accelerated. Spencer Pratt’s advancement through the primary is the latest example. While political insiders dismissed him, he understood something many career politicians still don’t: direct, authentic communication with voters often matters more than endorsements, consultants, or party machinery. Through social media, podcasts, viral moments, and emerging tools like AI-generated media, candidates can bypass traditional gatekeepers and speak directly to the people they hope to serve. Reality television personalities understand these dynamics instinctively because audience connection has always been at the core of their profession. Critics love to sneer at reality stars as unserious fame-chasers, but Spencer Pratt’s advancement through the primary demonstrates how often the political class misreads what voters want. The deeper truth is that many have already built successful lives and careers. They’re willingly stepping away from comfort, privacy, financial security, and family peace to enter the arena, knowing that in politics, the microscope falls not just on them, but on their spouse, children, parents, and friends. The skills developed on reality television translate powerfully to public service. It demands clear communication under pressure, quick thinking amid chaos, the ability to build relationships with people from every background, and the composure to stay steady while the world watches and judges. In today’s environment, communication is leadership. The ability to explain ideas plainly, inspire trust, and cut through noise is central to effective governance. Far from easy or mindless, reality television is an intense, accelerated course in public accountability. You can’t hide behind consultant-scripted statements or staff-written talking points. Millions watch, react, praise, and criticize in real time. It forces thicker skin, sharper self-awareness, greater adaptability, and the discipline to stay focused amid chaos. Watching The Apprentice, I saw more than entertainment; I saw real lessons in team dynamics, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and leadership under pressure. That’s why it makes perfect sense that Sean Duffy went from The Real World to Congress and now serves as Secretary of Transportation, or that Spencer Pratt went from The Hills to advancing through a competitive primary. These platforms reveal who can handle pressure and authentically connect with everyday people. My time on reality television doesn’t define me — my faith, family, and values do. But it undeniably shaped me. It taught me how to handle criticism with grace, communicate clearly even when emotions run high, and keep my eyes on what matters most amid the noise. Those lessons have served me well in media and communications, and they shape how I evaluate leaders today: not by pedigree or polish, but by character, resilience, vision, and the courage to step into the arena knowing the personal cost. The political world has changed. Voters are looking for men and women who can connect directly with the people they hope to serve, rather than those who only know how to play the insider game. Reality television does not disqualify someone from public service. In many ways, it has become one of the most effective training grounds for leadership in the digital age. The same skills that help someone survive years under public scrutiny — authentic communication, resilience, adaptability, and the ability to connect with ordinary people — are increasingly the ones that help candidates advance and win in modern politics. Spencer Pratt’s advancement through the primary didn’t happen despite his reality television background. There’s a strong argument that it happened, in part, because of it. We should judge candidates by their actions, their ideas, their grit, and their character, not by the medium that first put them in the public eye. Because in America, even the teenage villain of a California reality show can grow into a serious political contender and challenge the political establishment. Ultimately, voters, not political insiders, decide who belongs in the arena. *** Jillian Anderson King is a former Washington Redskins Cheerleader Ambassador and ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelor in Paradise contestant. She’s a Mombassador for Moms for America, an ambassador for Turning Point and Turning Point Faith, and a proud Christian Conservative mother and wife. Jillian is also the founder of The Kings Firm, a strategic communications firm.