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A parolee with a long history of crime has been taken into custody and charged after a woman in New York City was fatally shot, rolled up in a sleeping bag, and thrown outside in the trash, according to the New York Post.Chad Irish, 55, was brought in for questioning on Monday concerning the death of Yazmeen Williams, 31. Following the questioning, Irish was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, concealment of a corpse, and menacing. However, he has not been charged with homicide in connection with Williams.'She was the best sister I could have, and I love her so much.'At the time of his arrest, Irish was out on parole for a robbery he committed in the Bronx. The Post reported that he had been arrested 21 times leading up to his latest arrest.CBS News previously reported that Williams' family and friends decided to speak out after the woman's body was discovered on Friday on 27th Street between Second and Third Avenues.The medical examiner's office confirmed that Williams' cause of death was due to a gunshot to the head. At the time, the authorities said they had taken a person of interest into custody for questioning. While it is unclear where the killing allegedly took place, reports noted that the police saw video footage of a man pulling the bag on a motorized wheelchair.Following the atrocious incident, a memorial was set up around where the body was found, according to CBS News.Williams was about to take on a new job at the city's Department of Housing Preservation on Monday. Williams' mother, Nicole, said that "she was looking so forward to living, living her life. She got her degree in criminal justice. She went to Buffalo State University, and she wanted to go back to be a lawyer."Williams had two siblings, a twin brother and a younger sister."She used to always take good care of me, and she used to always be proud of me. She was the best sister I could have, and I love her so much. I just wish she could've stayed a little longer because I just wanted to grow up with her," her little sister said."You could always catch her on the Citi Bike. She had a beautiful voice," another person said. "No one would have a reason to hurt her like that.""Everyone she knew, she meant something to them," said a second person. "She just really loved life. I don't know who would do this to her.""We want justice for Yazzy," her mother said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Republican National Committee's platform committee reportedly voted 84-18 on Monday to adopt former President Donald Trump's proposed 2024 convention platform, thereby confirming and outlining the GOP's "America First" priorities headed into the election — as well as what issues will be effectively discarded moving forward. RNC Chair Michael Whatley noted that the platform "is a bold roadmap that will undo the devastating damage that Joe Biden's far-left policies have done to this country, power President Trump to a historic victory in November, and Make America Great Again." From the outset, the approved 16-page platform signals a resumption of Trump's populist focus on supporting the "forgotten men and women of America" and shunning the "siren song of globalism." Extra to emphasizing the importance of reestablishing American borders, on-shoring manufacturing, securing elections, and clamping down on crime, Trump's party is apparently also gearing up to industrialize space and rebuild the country's dilapidated cities. "For decades, our politicians sold our jobs and livelihoods to the highest bidders overseas," says the document's preamble. "They insulated themselves from criticism and the consequences of their own bad actions, allowing our Borders to be overrun, our cities to be overtaken by crime, our System of Justice to be weaponized, and our young people to develop a sense of hopelessness and despair." "They rejected our History and our Values. Quite simply, they did everything in their power to destroy our Country," added the preamble. Noting that Trump's first term marked a positive break in this trend, the platform indicates that a Republican trifecta in Washington, D.C., would continue his earlier project of making America great again. Doing so will apparently involve making good on the following 20 promises, originally in all caps: "Seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion"; "Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history"; "End inflation, and make America affordable again"; "Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower"; "Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!"; "Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms"; "Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great Iron Dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in America"; "End the weaponization of government against the American people"; "Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders"; "Rebuild our cities, including Washington[,] DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again"; "Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world"; "Keep the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency"; "Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age"; "Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations"; "Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children"; "Keep men out of women's sports"; "Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again"; "Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship"; and "Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success." The remainder of the platform elaborates on some of these promises while also committing the GOP to take other stands — against the creation of a central bank digital currency; against "Democrats' unlawful and unAmerican Crypto crackdown"; against taxpayer-funded sex change mutilations; for the development of artificial intelligence rooted in free speech; and for the restoration of beauty in public architecture and through conservation efforts. The platform also indicates that Republicans will support the establishment of a federal task force aimed at fighting anti-Christian bias "that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America." Whereas previous Republican platforms emphasized pro-life concerns regarding the slaughter of the unborn, Trump's platform reads like Republican realpolitik regarding abortion. While indicating that the 14th Amendment "guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process," the platform intimates that its application to the unborn is a matter for individual states to decide. The Republican Party moving forward will apparently only commit to opposing late-term abortion while simultaneously supporting access to "birth control" and fertility treatments. The Washington Post highlighted that the document also omits language from previous platforms condemning the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to grant homosexuals the right to "marry." Instead, it states, "Republicans will promote a culture that values the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of childhood, and the foundational role of families, and supports working parents. We will end policies that punish families." Trump noted on Truth Social, "Ours is a forward-looking Agenda with strong promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate. We are, quite simply, the Party of Common Sense!" Senior Trump campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a joint statement, "While Joe Biden and Democrats argue about who will be at the top of their ticket and have implemented policies that have raised prices on everyday families, opened the floodgates to migrant crime via wide-open borders, shackled American energy with red tape forced by Washington bureaucrats, and sewn [sic] chaos across the world through weak foreign policy, President Trump will Make America Great Again through these America First principles." The 2024 platform has been met with mixed responses. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the chair of the platform committee, suggested it's the "best platform we've ever put forward." "I think we have a unified party behind President Trump who's our nominee and our platform reflects his views," Kevin Cabrera, an RNC platform committee member from Florida, told WISN-TV. "It's a stark contrast to the other side." Some in the tech space celebrated the platform's resistance to regulation and forward-thinking on space and AI. Jacob Helberg, commissioner for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, suggested it "sets a new standard for what a pro-tech agenda looks like." Gayle Ruzicka, a RNC platform committee member from Utah, told WISN there was no virtually no debate about the platform. "There was no committees. We've always had subcommittees where we can go in and work on a section of the platform. We can propose amendments, debate them, add them. Always happens — I've done it many times," said Ruzicka. "They didn't allow any amendments. They didn't allow any discussion. They rolled us." "I'm extremely disappointed that we do not have any pro-life language," added Ruzicka. "There are good things in this platform. There are a lot of things in there that I support. ... But I didn't vote for this because we've never had a platform — I've been coming to these conventions since 1992 and this is the first time we don't have a pro-life platform." While some pro-life advocates, such as Paul Brown, director of policy for Abolish Abortion Texas, similarly bemoaned the party's softened stance against abortion, others — including Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, and Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, have voiced support for the "common-sense promises" in the platform. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

French cyclist Julien Bernard was fined for "inappropriate behavior" during the renowned Tour de France for briefly stopping to kiss his wife and baby boy.It was just 15 minutes into the seventh stage of the famous race when a spectacular moment happened. The course was going through Bernard's home region of Burgundy when an ecstatic crowd of friends, family, and French supporters greeted him in a cinematic moment that caused authorities to part the seas of a cheering crowd. As he rode through the middle, Bernard stopped to kiss his wife and son. Bernard responded to a video of the event on X by saying "Sorry, but what was that? I love you so much," directed toward his family.It seemed that not every viewer thought the stop was such an endearing moment, as the international cyclists' union determined Bernard's actions to be a punishable offence.'It was a dream moment for me.'The Union Cycliste Internationale saw the act as "unseemly or inappropriate behavior during the race and damage to the image of sport" and fined the cyclist 200 Swiss francs, equating to approximately $223, Fox News reported.Bernard sarcastically responded to a screenshot of the fine, saying he was willing to pay the price over and over again."And sorry [UCI Cycling] for having damaged the image of Sport But I am willing to pay 200CHF every day and relive this moment," he wrote. — (@) Danish cyclist Magnus Cort responded to Bernard, jokingly saying he was lucky he wasn't also fined for kissing his wife on video during the race."What a joke. I guess I was lucky when they missed me a couple of days ago," Cort said."Actually that was two kisses so you should get double fines," Bernard replied.In a subsequent television interview, Bernard said that his wife had been organizing the moment with friends for weeks in order to get the timing right."It was really incredible. My wife has been organizing this with some friends for a few weeks now, and she did a really, really good job," he said, according to ESPN. "On a time trial, you have time to enjoy yourself. It's these moments that keep me going and cycling."Bernard told reporters that he knew something was planned but wasn't exactly sure what it was and that he was looking forward to seeing the plans unfold."It was a dream moment for me," he added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The police are investigating after a 20-year-old college student was found dead in the Connecticut River over the weekend. The student attended Dartmouth College, and the authorities are looking into whether his untimely death could have been related to hazing, according to the New York Post.Won Jang grew up in Delaware and was a Beta Alpha Omega fraternity member at the prestigious college. He was last seen at a social gathering Saturday night around the Dartmouth boathouse beside the Connecticut River. The young man was reported missing the following day.'Won was always an amazing guy. I don’t think there was ever a time when I didn’t see him with a smile on his face.'After the authorities were notified, they searched for Jang for several hours, according to the report. His body was eventually found on Sunday about 65 feet from the river's shore, according to the Hanover Police Department's release on Facebook. Initial findings indicate that there was alcohol involved in the incident, according to witnesses.“Again, that’s all part of our investigation. We did receive an anonymous email this morning through the college that there may be some hazing involved, so we certainly will look into that aspect, too,” Dennis added, according to WMUR.The fraternity that Jang belonged to was disciplined for an undisclosed incident that took place last fall. The Dartmouth reported earlier this year that Beta Alpha Omega was one of four fraternities that had been suspended for violating community standards, several of which included alcohol.The report noted that Jang — a biomedical engineering major — had been participating in Sophomore Summer, which is a time for upcoming juniors to stay on campus and take part in a more relaxed summer course.Jang also served as a project manager at the DALI lab, a research assistant, and was a mentor for international students on campus.“Won was always an amazing guy. I don’t think there was ever a time when I didn’t see him with a smile on his face,” Jang's friend Kledian Marinaj said.“I had just been talking to him to make plans to grab a meal sometime. Of course, I was very upset when I first got the news, so I met up with friends around here, and we went on a walk talking about all the great things about Won, about how he makes jokes and makes people laugh.”Following the development, a spokesperson for the school said counseling would be made available for those who needed it.“Won wholeheartedly embraced opportunities at Dartmouth to pursue his academic and personal passions,” Scott Brown, dean of the college, wrote in an email to all those on campus. “He enthusiastically took part in the Dartmouth community.”The investigation into Jang's death is ongoing.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

For decades, we’ve been told pasteurizing milk kills harmful bacteria and reduces food borne illnesses. If that’s true, then where did all the hype around raw milk come from? Why is something that was long written off as dangerous suddenly the trendiest food on the market? Dr. Paul Saladino, a double board certified MD, the host of the "Fundamental Health" podcast, and the leading authority on the carnivore diet, recently joined Dave Rubin on “The Rubin Report” to explain the truth behind the controversial beverage and why the government seems to have a big problem with it. Getting to the Truth of the Raw Milk Debate | Paul Saladino www.youtube.com Apparently, raw milk is far safer than we’ve been led to believe, while pasteurized milk isn’t nearly as sanitary as the FDA claims. According to Dr. Saladino, pasteurized milk is produced in “not the most sanitary conditions.” “The udders are kind of close to the poop,” but “they know that milk is going to be pasteurized, so they don't really care if it gets contaminated,” he explains, noting that back in “1986, there was a huge outbreak of salmonella in pasteurized milk.” In contrast, raw milk farms take far more sanitary precautions. He points to the largest producer of raw milk in the United States – Raw Farm, which is based in California. “The folks at Raw Farm built a special barn so the cows have multiple showers” and “get the opportunity to poop and pee multiple times before they go to get milked, and their utters are cleaned; it’s very carefully monitored,” and “they test every single batch for contaminants,” Dr. Saladino tells Dave, adding that Raw Farms has “never had contamination.” As for the alleged health benefits of raw milk, “multiple longitudinal observational studies” have shown that children who grow up drinking raw milk “have lower rates of asthma, eczema, and allergies.” “Drinking raw milk probably is beneficial for kids programming their immune systems,” says Dr. Saladino, adding that “pasteurized dairy was probably something that triggered [his] eczema in the past.” Further, “a lot of people who are lactose intolerant can drink it because different bacterial cultures in the milk can change the gut.” So, if raw milk offers a range of health benefits, why is the FDA “denigrating it”? Apparently at Raw Farm and other similar farms, government agents have shown up carrying “long barrel submachine guns” demanding that they “dump all the milk out.” To learn more about what Dr. Saladino swears is a “war on raw milk” AND why raw milk has been connected to bird flu, watch the clip above. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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