Karoline Leavitt takes no prisoners. She’s smarter than everyone in the room when she meets with the press, and they hate her for it. In this clip, Kaitlin Collins was hoping to put down Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt had none of it. Leavitt explained to Collins, “My predecessor stood up at this podium, and she said […] The post Karoline Leavitt Verbally Knocks Around CNN’s Kaitlin Collins appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The man identified and detained by law enforcement as a “person of interest” in the Saturday mass shooting at Brown University is a 24-year-old Wisconsin man, according to reports. Law enforcement tracked the man down at the Hampton Inn in Coventry, Rhode Island, on Sunday. The man had rented a room in the hotel. Law enforcement officers who apprehended the man found two firearms in the room as well: a revolver and a Glock handgun with a laser sight attachment, according to CNN. On Sunday afternoon, the FBI was spotted around a home owned by the family of the person of interest, according to CNN. Law enforcement officials are investigating “what might be an extensive mental health history” for the Wisconsin man, NBC News reports. Officials are also investigating a potential link between the man and Brown University. According to public records, the Wisconsin man’s current residence is an apartment in Washington, D.C. An Army spokeswoman told NBC News that the man served as an infantryman in the Army from May 2021 to November 2024. Law enforcement and officials have been cautious about giving much information about the “person of interest” in public. A person of interest, to law enforcement, is someone who police believe has information or a connection to a crime. Police have not yet identified the man as a “suspect” in the shooting. Officials acknowledged the slow release of information in a press conference on Sunday, urging patience as officials continue to investigate the shooting. “It’s not that we’re hiding anything, it’s just the way we work,” said Providence Police Department Major David Lapatin. “That’s why we haven’t been able to give you much information. But we’re trying to do the best job we can. And some things we have to keep, you know, out of the public light until we’re ready to come out with everything.” A gunman entered an engineering building at Brown University on Saturday afternoon and killed two students and injured nine others. Law enforcement launched a manhunt immediately after the shooting before picking up the “person of interest” nearly 12 hours later.

Roughly 150,000 people who identify as Jewish live in Australia, which has a population of about 27 million; roughly one-third of the Jewish community resides in the Sydney area, according to Reuters

The ladies hosting The View are fans of the Paramount+ series Landman. In November of 2024, they were gushing over the star Billy Bob Thornton. So they might be shocked to hear a brutal critique of their show and them coming out of the mouth of his character Tommy Norris. It came in episode 5 of the second season when Tommy was explaining to his father TL (Sam Elliott) what "The View was all about. Here is their conversation as relayed by Variety: In the episode, Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) is urging his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), to kill time around the house by watching a TV show and suggests “The View.” When T.L. admits that he doesn’t know what that is, Tommy explains it as, “A bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about. It’s pretty funny.” T.L. responds, “Don’t sound funny.” Tommy replies, “Well, it ain’t joke funny, it’s like ‘fart in church’ funny, you know what I mean?” T.L. retorts, “That don’t sound funny, either.” Tommy then clarifies, “Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.” As a television critic Tommy sounds dead on accurate as to his description of The View and its gaseous hosts. Could there be be a Tommy Norris review of Morning Joe coming in the future? "Best Biden Ever" was pretty funny.

A recent interview with Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who is also a reverend, on NBC’s Meet the Depressed makes clear that Washington’s one true religion is power. If articles of Christian faith get mangled along the way, well, that’s secondary. Watch as host Kristen Welker cues Warnock up for another “deplorable”-style remark, this time basically labelling President Donald Trump’s supporters a “plague”: “You said: ‘My faith is not a weapon. My faith is a bridge.’ You also say, quote, ‘Trumpism is a plague on the American conscience.’ How do you square those two ideas for people?” – @kwelkernbc to Senator @ReverendWarnock pic.twitter.com/DwUjQnKrCT — Brent Baker ???? ?? (@BrentHBaker) December 14, 2025 KRISTEN WELKER: Senator, let me ask you about something else that you said in your speech. You said, “My faith is not a weapon. My faith is a bridge.” You also say, quote, “Trumpism is a plague on the American conscience.” How do you square those two ideas for people? RAPHAEL WARNOCK: Yeah, as I point out, I think over the last several years, over the last 50 years and over the last year we have seen a deepening divide between what people need from their government and what government is delivering. There is a kind of corruption, legalized bribery that attends our politics. You see it in the frustrating fight to get basic health care for ordinary citizens. Truly, the wealthiest nation on the planet can afford to provide basic health care to its citizens. We suffer not from a poverty of resources, but a poverty of moral imagination. And I do think that Donald Trump, if he's better at something than anybody else, it's dividing us. And I think it is a distraction and while we are distracted and divided, we have literally witnessed the largest transfer of wealth in American history… WELKER: Yeah. WARNOCK: …from the bottom to the top, and people are fighting- they're seeing their costs for healthcare are doubling while Congress engages in everyday political games. They're seeing their utility costs go up, their grocery costs go up and meanwhile, the president is saying he would rate this economy an A+++. The question for me is, who is he talking about? Clearly his friends, the well-connected, the wealthy- certainly not the people that I see every day in Georgia. Of course, there is no followup from Welker, who received no response to her original question. There is no wide-eyed pointing the pen at Warnock demanding he reconcile his positions. Instead, Warnock was allowed to deliver an ad-hominem attack against the half of the country that supports contrary policy positions. In fact, Welker let out some sotto voce agreement with Warnock halfway through his rant, right at the point when he was denouncing the “largest transfer of wealth in American history from the bottom to the top.” He was presumably referring to the One Big, Beautiful Bill, but the real biggest transfer occurred during Covid. No fact-check from Welker at all, who moved on to the next question. The biggest hypocrisy here is that Warnock was brought on, in part, to talk about how his faith informs his work in the Senate, and in context of a speech given at the Center for American Progress. He tried sticking to that script for a minute but ended up maligning half the country. Reckless words, given the current political climate of left-wing violence. One wonders how Warnock “bridges” his faith with those of his Christian brethren and sisters who voted for ideas that he believes are a “plague”. It would’ve been nice for Welker to ask, rather than just nod along.  

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A Sydney fruit shop owner who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during the mass shooting at Bondi Beach is recovering in a hospital after undergoing surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family said.

Brown University sophomore Ella Cook has been identified as one of the two students killed in a shooting on campus Saturday afternoon. Cook's death was announced during a service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.