'Indecent behavior with a juvenile'

Pierce Clarkson has been arrested and suspended

The student told police about the alleged relationship

'the will of the people'

Democrats are expected to hold a safe blue seat in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington in Tuesday’s special congressional election. The open seat is in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, formerly held by longtime Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who died in May after a battle with esophageal cancer.  The Northern Virginia congressional district, one of the wealthiest districts in the country, elected Connolly with 66% of the vote in the November 2024 general election. Republicans have not won the seat since 2006, when then-Rep. Tom Davis was reelected. Indeed, the district with many government employees and lobbyists as residents is almost tailored for a Democrat victory. As such, a likely Democrat win in the special election in the deep blue district should not necessarily be seen as a significant rebuke of Republican President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled House and Senate. Republicans currently control the House of Representatives by a margin of 219 to 212. There are currently four vacancies in the House, including the one left by Connolly. The looming 2026 congressional midterms have drawn a rash of political maneuvering by both major political parties, including redistricting efforts in a number of states and an attempt by Trump to exclude the counting of illegal aliens from a new national census. Maintaining control of both chambers of Congress is crucial if the GOP hopes to avoid another impeachment attempt by Democrats of Trump and to be able to continue Senate confirmation of nominees by the president. The two main candidates to replace Connolly are Democrat Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw and Republican candidate Stewart Whitson. Whitson is a combat veteran who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq as well as a former FBI special agent. He participated in more than 300 combat missions. Whitson is a lawyer and Catholic father of five.  Stewart Whitson greets a prospective voter in his bid for the 11th Congressional District seat at an event at Fairfax High School on June 28 in Fairfax, Va. (Craig Hudson/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Walkinshaw, meanwhile, is Connolly’s chosen successor, endorsed by the now-deceased former congressman after he announced he would not seek reelection. He previously served as Connolly’s chief of staff for more than 10 years beginning in 2009. The political aide assumed his current position as a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in January 2020. Walkinshaw’s platform is a panoply of progressive priorities, including support for abortion rights, “comprehensive immigration reform that creates a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, protects Dreamers, and secures family reunification,” and voting rights legislation that was criticized by Republicans as a way to federalize elections to favor the Democratic Party. The post Special House Election Set in Blue Northern Virginia appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Trump administration will be cracking down on companies that discriminate against American citizens by hiring less costly foreign workers for highly skilled jobs, a situation happening frequently in the tech industry.  Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said the Justice Department is focusing on H-1B visas.  H-1B visas are given to certain foreign workers so they can work in the U.S. in specialty occupations that usually require a college degree. The Department of Labor places a cap of 85,000 such visas per year, but sometimes, exemptions are made. “Before the holiday weekend—Labor Day, after all—I thought it would be kind of cute to say [to my colleagues], ‘Hey, guys, we are enforcing our federal employment laws. That includes the Civil Rights Division law that penalizes employers for putting foreign workers over American workers,’” Dhillon said Tuesday at the National Conservatism Conference.  She said she didn’t anticipate a lot of interest but was surprised at the response. “There were almost 100 new complaints over the weekend, which in our department is massive,” Dhillon said, noting that past Republican and Democrat administrations had ignored the problem. “People on both sides were benefiting from the cheap labor that left American workers out in the cold. We are not doing that any longer in this administration.” “This [H-1B] program allows companies to replace American workers with cheap foreign labor, and it mostly benefits one country: India,” Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told The Daily Signal.  More than two-thirds of H-1B visa recipients, or 72.6%, are from India, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The distant-second group is at 12.5% and is from China. Hankinson is completing a report calling for the H-1B visa program to be reduced and reformed, contending it has ballooned beyond its intended scope. He said “fraud and nepotism are rife” in the program that drives down wages in America and exploits foreign workers. “It’s hitting college graduates,” Hankinson said. “Everybody used to tell young Americans, ‘learn to code,’” referring to an admonition to keep one’s job skills up-to-date by learning to write computer software. “They did learn to code, and they can’t get jobs.”  Labor Department rules require employers to post job listings in at least two major Sunday newspapers to demonstrate an attempt to recruit U.S. applicants before recruiting foreign workers.   The H-1B program has its supporters.  In May, a group of House Democrats and one House Republican wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urging him to reinstate a pilot renewal process for H-1B visa holders to allow the workers to stay longer in the United States. The House members argued this would increase government efficiency and would assure the flow of skilled workers for industries such as technology and health care continues to benefit American businesses.  Meanwhile, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he would not have come to the United States if not for the H-1B program. But he also called for reforms to the system. In fiscal year 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a fraud investigation after it found 408,891 H-1B applicants were registered more than once for the H-1B visa lottery system.  That’s a significant increase from 165,180 multiple registrations in 2023 and 90,143 in 2022. The Wall Street Journal had previously reported that companies were trying to cheat the visa lottery system by entering the same applicant multiple times to increase his or her chances of getting a visa. This prompted the USCIS, even during the Biden administration, to take notice.  A USCIS statement said at the time: “Based on evidence from the FY 2023 and FY 2024 H-1B cap seasons, we have undertaken extensive fraud investigations, denied and revoked petitions accordingly, and continue to make law enforcement referrals for criminal prosecution.”  The post Trump DOJ to Crack Down on Potential Abuse of Foreign Worker Visa Program appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Trump Escalates: After Six More Dead in Chicago, Why Won't Pritzker Ask for Help?

Former Minnesota Department of Education Director and Sex Offender Arrested by ICE

Relatives of Scott Lindsey — a 44-year-old autistic man who lives in Hammond, Indiana — told WLS-TV he was riding his bike home through a park last month after finishing his shift at a local grocery store where he's worked for 14 years.Lindsey added to the station that as he stopped to drink at a water fountain, a group surrounded him and began taunting him and calling him names before taking turns beating, punching, and kicking him.'It looks like, at this point, it was entertainment because they saw he was vulnerable. After a period of time, other individuals, instead of intervening, joined in the attack, and no one, no one intervened on Scott's behalf.'"I didn't say anything to them," Lindsey recalled to WLS.When asked what the group said to him, Lindsey told the station they accused him of riding too close to them, "and then they started hitting me."Lindsey told WLS he's doing OK despite having most of his front teeth knocked out.RELATED: Father allegedly catches therapist in autistic son's bedroom closet with boy's pants down: DA "I'm feeling fine," he told the station.WLS reported that someone saw the attack and called 911.When officers arrived at Hessville Park, they found Lindsey bloodied and the attackers gone, the station said. Lindsey's stepfather, Brian Beatty, added to WLS that the Aug. 15 attack took place around 7 p.m.Still, police said Lindsey had visible injuries to his face and wasn't able to fully recount the incident, and officers made sure — in recognition of his vulnerable status — to document the incident as battery and get the victim medical attention.WLS reported that Lindsey — who has lived with his aunt since his mother died — said at first he didn't want to tell anyone that he got jumped but eventually did.Beatty added to the station that an even more disturbing detail is that one of the individuals involved in the unprovoked attack recorded the violence and then posted video on social media."It looks like, at this point, it was entertainment because they saw he was vulnerable," the angry stepfather noted to WLS. "After a period of time, other individuals, instead of intervening, joined in the attack, and no one, no one intervened on Scott's behalf."Lindsey added to the station that he won't be riding through the park anytime soon and just wants the whole ordeal behind him: "I felt bad about the whole situation."His family noted to WLS that Lindsey also will need costly, extensive dental work to repair the damage to his mouth from the attack.One bright spot in the ugly incident is that police said they arrested a suspect.Police told WGN-TV that 25-year-old Keshaun Brooks, a Hammond resident, was arrested during an Aug. 31 traffic stop and taken into custody in connection with the attack.RELATED: Arrested school district superintendent resigns amid claims that teachers mentally, verbally abused special-needs students Police on Monday told Blaze News that Brooks was charged with three felonies — one count of aggravated battery, one count of battery resulting in serious bodily injury, and one count of battery resulting in moderate bodily injury. He also was charged with one count of battery resulting in bodily injury — a misdemeanor, police added to Blaze News.Police also told Blaze News on Monday that Brooks remains in Lake County Jail.Police added that surveillance video from park cameras indicated that Brooks approached and violently attacked Lindsey, striking him multiple times in the head and face while he was on the ground — and that juveniles at the scene could be heard taunting the victim during the assault.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Government officials, the establishment media, and pharmaceutical representatives spent years reassuring the American public that COVID-19 vaccines were "safe and effective." Those who dared to correctly suggest otherwise were often attacked and censored, and many who refused the jabs lost their jobs.Several weeks after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took an axe to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' mRNA vaccine development activities and in the immediate wake of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's revocation of emergency-use authorization for COVID vaccines, FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary told CNN talking head Jake Tapper that his agency is about to shine an unflattering light on the fallout of the vaccines.Makary indicated on Thursday that the manufacturers of the latest COVID vaccines — Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax — have agreed both to conduct clinical trials on healthy subjects this flu season and to produce their results by May.'There have been children who have died from the COVID vaccine.'"I think that's going to help answer the question a lot of parents have. If you have a 6-year-old girl, does she need 70 more shots in her average lifespan, or is the population immunity, the natural immunity, and the current circulating virulence — that is, the severity of the virus circulating now — more like a common cold, and is the protection transient?" Makary said. "And what is the true death rate or myocarditis rate or serious adverse event rate of the COVID shot in a young, healthy male today?""We do know at the FDA — because we've been looking into the [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] database of self-reports — that there have been children who have died from the COVID vaccine," the commissioner told Tapper.VAERS accepts reports of adverse events that take place following vaccination from members of the public, health care providers, and vaccine manufacturers.RELATED: RFK Jr. laughs at Democratic senators' vaccine concern-mongering: 'You're just making stuff up' SementsovaLesia/Getty Images According to the VAERS database, there have been many thousands of reported serious reactions following COVID-19 vaccination among those 29 years of age and younger, including death and permanent disabilities.Makary indicated that his agency is now "doing a proper investigation" into COVID-19 child vaccination deaths.'It was not released in the last administration, and it should have been.'The commissioner noted that this investigation will include a review of autopsy reports, further scientific investigations, and interviews with "the primary sources, the family members who lost a child.""We think the public deserves to have that information," Makary continued. "It was not released in the last administration, and it should have been."Blaze News reached out to the FDA as well as to Pfizer, Novavax, and Moderna for comment but did not receive responses by deadline.After insinuating that the Biden administration sat on possible evidence of the COVID-19 vaccines' lethality, Makary alleged that some of the recently departed officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had hamstrung efforts earlier this year to obtain data pertaining to the link between myocarditis and the COVID vaccines.RELATED: RFK Jr. makes crystal clear to the CDC mutineers: The restoration of public trust 'won't stop' Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle that can manifest as various symptoms, including heart palpitations, chest pain, fainting, and weakness, and can also cause fatal cardiac arrest.Months after ex-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claimed without evidence that her agency had not "seen any reports" or "a signal" for myocarditis, the FDA and the CDC belatedly put out advisories in 2021 admitting of an elevated risk of myocarditis among mRNA COVID-19 vaccinees. Despite these admissions, the corporate media and medical establishment spent years pushing the narrative that such risks remained mild and rare.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a Senate hearing last week that he agreed with the suggestion attributed to Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices member Dr. Retsef Levi that the COVID vaccines caused serious harm, including death, "especially among young people."Tapper, referencing Kennedy's agreement on this point, asked Makary on Thursday whether there was "a reliable, credible study behind that claim," noting that his team at CNN "went to the CDC website, and almost all the studies there, if not all the studies there, suggested the opposite, that kids were generally not poorly affected by the vaccine, that it was rare.""Yes, there is because they're at higher risk, particularly males, for myocarditis," Makary responded.Referencing the findings of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the commissioner added, "It can be as high as 1 in 2,600 young males between the ages of 17 and 24."A peer-reviewed study published last year in the pharmacotherapy journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety concluded that "COVID-19 vaccination is strongly associated with a serious adverse safety signal of myocarditis, particularly in children and young adults resulting in hospitalization and death."'We're not going to just keep rubber-stamping the approvals.'An FDA-funded study published by the Lancet journal eClinicalMedicine in October indicated that myocardial COVID-19 injuries warrant "continued clinical surveillance and long-term studies in affected patients."Makary suggested that his agency has "asked for the CDC to give us [myocarditis] data since we came into office" but was blocked and "given different excuses and told to wait and 'we can't do it.'"The commissioner alleged that "those individuals who resigned from the CDC that were at leadership [level]" were those who "gave us the hard time about getting the data."Among the CDC officials who recently resigned were Debra Houry, who served as chief medical officer; Daniel Jernigan, who directed the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Demetre Daskalakis, the non-straight activist who directed the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.While Makary suggested during the interview that the vaccines produced as a result of President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed saved lives, especially because early on "there was low population immunity," he stressed that now is "a different time."The FDA recently revoked emergency-use authorization for COVID vaccines but approved COVID-19 vaccines for adults over 65 and for individuals 6 months and older who have one or more risk factors putting them at high risk of severe COVID."We're not going to just keep rubber-stamping the approvals that then lead to this incredible march and chant every year: 'Everyone has to get their COVID shot,'" Makary told Tapper.Like Blaze News? 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