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Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:50:00 +0000 Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban
Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban
Democrat-run Michigan just backed down after threatening therapists who use talk therapy to help children with 'gender dysphoria' accept their biology.
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Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban
Democrat-run Michigan just backed down after threatening therapists who use talk therapy to help children with 'gender dysphoria' accept their biology.
Alex Brandon / AP On Thursday, the state agreed to a permanent federal court order barring it from ever enforcing House Bill 4616 - the 2023 law, signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, that threatened licensed counselors with discipline for engaging in ordinary talk therapy with minors experiencing gender dysphoria . U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering signed off on the stipulated judgment , and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented the counselors who sued, wasted no time declaring victory according to the Daily Caller
Interestingly, a year and a half earlier the same judge sided with the state.
Backstory
Whitmer signed HB 4616 and its companion bill in July 2023 , making Michigan the 22nd state to bar mental health professionals from what the statute broadly defined as "conversion therapy" for minors - not just efforts to change sexual orientation, but any "efforts to change behavior or gender expression." At the time, Whitmer said Michigan was "banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy" and pitched the law as making the state more welcoming for LGBTQ kids.
Then the law met the constitution... Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties, joined by Lansing therapist Emily McJones of Little Flower Counseling, sued in 2024, arguing the ban was viewpoint discrimination dressed up as medical regulation. Judge Beckering initially sided with the state, denying a preliminary injunction in February 2025. The counselors appealed - and won.
Late last year, the Sixth Circuit reversed her, becoming the first federal appeals court in the country to block a statewide "conversion therapy" ban of this kind. Judge Raymond Kethledge wrote for the majority that the state's theory "faces strong headwinds as applied to counseling that consists solely of spoken words." Judge Rachel Bloomekatz, a Biden appointee, dissented, arguing the ban was likely constitutional because every major medical association treats "conversion therapy" as illegitimate care.
Then SCOTUS Weighed In
On March 31, the Court ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that Colorado's nearly identical "conversion therapy" ban had to survive strict First Amendment scrutiny - a standard laws like it almost never clear. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion; Justice Elena Kagan concurred, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor; only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. Buried in Gorsuch's opinion was a citation to the Sixth Circuit's Michigan ruling - the same case now forcing Whitmer's hand. The Trevor Project called the ruling a disappointing setback for LGBTQ+ youth mental health protections.
Michigan didn't fold right away. After Chiles came down, Attorney General Dana Nessel - the state's first openly gay AG - argued free speech doesn't give medical professionals license to harm their patients , and said her office would review the ruling before deciding on next steps. Whitmer vowed to keep protecting LGBTQ youth "as long as I'm governor." Four months and one dead legal theory later, the state signed the permanent order instead.
"Common Sense," Says Becket
Becket's Luke Goodrich, the counselors' lead attorney, called the outcome "a major victory for children, counselors, and common sense." He also argued - pointing to the roughly two dozen U.S. states and several European countries that have moved to restrict youth gender-transition medicine in recent years - that Michigan's ban was pushing kids toward medical intervention rather than away from it, and that the new order protects every licensed talk therapist in the state, not just his own clients.
It's Becket's second major win on this exact front this year. In February, its Mahmoud v. Taylor case - over Maryland parents' right to pull kids from classroom readings on gender transition and same-sex romance - ended in a $1.5 million settlement, as ZeroHedge reported at the time. The nonprofit hasn't lost a case at the Supreme Court since 2012.
As we noted back in April , Colorado didn't take its own 8-1 loss quietly - state lawmakers hit back with a bill making it easier to sue "conversion therapy" counselors and stripping away the usual time limit for filing those suits. Whether Michigan tries the same counterpunch, or just lets its ban die quietly, is still an open question. Either way, every other state running a similar law is standing on considerably thinner ice than it was four months ago.
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:50 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:15:00 +0000 North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras
North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras
North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times ,
A North Carolina officer was arrested by state authorities July 29 after allegedly accessing license plate registration information from Flock Safety cameras and other technology , authorities announced.
Flock Safety, based in Georgia, estimates more than 6,000 communities in 49 states have partnered with the company to install surveillance systems. Flock Safety Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Seth Elliot, 25, is facing a misdemeanor charge of illegally accessing a government computer , according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
Elliot, who started working at the department in 2024, allegedly accessed the Flock system and CJ Leads, a criminal justice database used by law enforcement in North Carolina, one time for non-law enforcement purposes , according to the police department.
The officer was placed on unpaid leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said.
A previous unrelated investigation had initially found the evidence that on June 16, Elliot had allegedly improperly accessed the license plate reader systems.
He was then placed on administrative assignment on June 22, and his equipment and access to systems with criminal intelligence information was revoked pending the outcome of the internal investigation.
Police Chief Estella Patterson said the department doesn't operate any of the Flock cameras or devices but has an agreement with the company to allow officers access to them.
Misuse of the access is not tolerated, Patterson said.
"The public expects and deserves the highest level of integrity from every officer who wears the CMPD badge," Patterson said in a statement. "Misusing law enforcement technology or accessing confidential information for non-law enforcement purposes is a betrayal of the public's trust and a violation of everything this profession stands for."
The Epoch Times was not able to reach Elliott for comment, and it's unclear if he has an attorney.
The North Carolina case is the latest law enforcement-related allegation of Flock camera misuse .
Earlier this month, Sgt. Kabiru Salawu of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office was arrested after an internal investigation found he allegedly misused the agency's Flock system. Salawu was fired by the department and charged with a felony violation of oath of office and misdemeanor misuse of license plate data, according to a sheriff's office statement.
Investigations in Georgia and several other states have also led to arrests over Flock camera access.
People have also destroyed the cameras in some cities , with some incidents occurring this week.
In Upstate New York, police arrested a 25-year-old man July 29 after he allegedly used a saw to cut down a Flock camera.
In Central California, a 40-year-old Pismo Beach man was arrested July 28 for allegedly intentionally tearing down and running over at least three Flock license plate readers, causing thousands of dollars in damage, Monterey County Sheriff's Office reported.
Flock Safety, based in Georgia, estimates more than 6,000 communities in 49 states have partnered with the company to install the surveillance systems.
The cameras are powered by artificial intelligence and capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, recording the location, date, and time. The cameras also capture the car's make, model, color, and other features, such as dents and bumper stickers, to use as data points, according to DeFlock, a community-driven, open-source project that maps the license plate readers.
DeFlock estimates Flock has installed nearly 123,400 cameras throughout the United States.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Seth Elliot, 25, is facing a misdemeanor charge of illegally accessing a government computer. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:15 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:05:00 +0000 Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian
Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian
Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News ,
New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president.
A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults - 48 percent - say Christians' support for Donald Trump has made them less likely to attend church.
Among strong Democrats the figure hits 76 percent. Atheists clock in at 72 percent. Even 30 to 44 percent of young people who still call themselves Christian claim the association turns them off.
The numbers come from a 2024 survey of 2,365 Americans aged 18 to 28, released publicly this month. Lead researcher Rick Richardson noted that spiritual interest among Gen Z remains high, yet church engagement has fallen.
"We wanted to understand the spiritual motivators and demotivators of young adults ages 18 to 28, and among many other factors, we found response to Trump [has] been one," he said.
Richardson added that young adults "are not looking for churches to agree with them on every issue, but they are looking for churches and pastors to be deeply honest and direct about where they are at and why."
Honesty is the last thing these respondents appear to want. TikTok influencers have been filming themselves in visible distress at the mere thought of sharing a sanctuary with Trump voters.
The report notes how one young woman stares into the camera and frets that she is "about to dissociate for the next few hours" because she knows the room will contain people who cast a ballot for the president. Another treats Christian support for Trump as an automatic disqualifier for worship.
This is not theology. It is political allergy elevated to religious crisis.
The same cultural machinery that produces this reaction has been running full throttle on university campuses for years.
Those campuses function less as centers of learning and more as godless leftist indoctrination cults that systematically strip young people of any traditional moral or religious framework and replace it with partisan rage.
Arizona State University recently turned "influencing" into an official college major. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication now offers a Bachelor of Arts in Content Creation complete with personal branding, audience analytics, and social-media strategy.
The degree trains students to manufacture online personas for pay while the deeper curriculum of elite higher education continues to treat faith, patriotism, and free markets as suspect.
Clay Travis cut through the economic self-pity that often follows. "These highly educated young far-left Democrats hate capitalism because they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on degrees the country DOES NOT value," he said.
He further urged, "They spent $200,000 on a women's studies degree [meanwhile] plumbers and electricians are driving better cars and making MORE money. They're furious the world is valuing other people's labor more than their own."
That resentment is cultivated deliberately. At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a required first-year education course for future teachers pushed extreme ideology on immigration, race, and gender.
Leaked PowerPoint slides framed border enforcement as white supremacy, demanded "humanizing language," and trained students to resist ICE rather than master classroom fundamentals. A whistleblower reported that the class spent its time on activism while ignoring how to teach math or reading.
The same institutions tolerate open expressions of political hatred that would be unthinkable if directed the other way. Kent State University allowed a student to display "art" depicting President Trump's severed head on a pike with the caption "We only have to get lucky once." Administrators initially defended the piece as protected expression.
When the campus protest theater reaches its peak, the entitlement becomes surreal. Princeton "hunger strikers" camping for Gaza complained that the university was not monitoring their vital signs and accused officials of deliberately weakening them.
One insisted, "They are not keeping track of our vitals. They are not at all taking care of us," while another claimed the group was "literally shaking" and "immunocompromised."
Joe Rogan diagnosed the pattern without hesitation. "I think we are sending our kids to cult camps," he said, adding "Some of them get locked in and then it becomes their identity. It's dangerous."
He continued: "If I was going to try to destroy the country, that's how I would do it... I would radicalize the kids, give them the stupidest ideas... You guys are doing nonsense. You go to cult camp. You're indoctrinating people."
At Columbia, occupiers who had broken into campus buildings demanded food and water as "basic humanitarian aid," comparing themselves to refugees. PhD student Johannah King-Slutzky asked whether the university wanted students "to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you."
The performance collapsed under mockery once the NYPD cleared the building.
Even the language of national identity is treated as contamination. Stanford University placed the word "American" on a harmful-language list , as if the simple act of naming the country were an act of aggression.
This is the pipeline. Universities that once transmitted Western civilization now transmit a secular political religion whose central sacrament is hatred of the American right and, by extension, of the Christians who still vote for it.
Young people emerge from these environments with high spiritual curiosity and zero tolerance for the actual historic faith that built the country. When they encounter a pastor who refuses to denounce Trump, the programmed response is flight. The church is not the problem. The prior four years of ideological conditioning are the problem.
The survey data is not evidence that Christianity has become too political. It is evidence that a generation has been taught to treat politics as the only remaining religion and Trump support as original sin. That is the textbook definition of cult thinking.
The institutions that produced it show no interest in reform. They keep expanding the curriculum of grievance, then act surprised when the graduates cannot sit through a Sunday service without experiencing dissociation.
America's churches face a straightforward choice. They can continue to apologize for the existence of conservative Christians, or they can recognize that the real barrier to young attendance is not the Gospel but the prior capture of the universities by a hostile, godless ideology.
The data is in. The mentalism is measurable. The cure begins with rejecting the cult camps that manufacture it.
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Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:05 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000 Russia Confirms It Has Attacked Over 80 Vessels In The Black Sea In July Alone
Russia Confirms It Has Attacked Over 80 Vessels In The Black Sea In July Alone
Russia Confirms It Has Attacked Over 80 Vessels In The Black Sea In July Alone
We've been detailing the escalating 'southern front' war in the Black and Caspian Seas, as Russia and Ukraine take aim at each other's maritime and energy and cargo transit and trade.
Ukraine's Black Sea ports, such as at Odessa, had by and large not been focus of large-scale Russian strikes in the opening years of the war, but it seems this is fast changing.
Also, the cargo going in and out of places like Odessa is increasingly coming under fire, as Ukraine's navy has been in turn targeting Russian vessels in the region, especially in the Sea of Azov.
On Saturday Russia's defense ministry issued some new figures which confirm the greatly expanded scope of its maritime war on Ukrainian shipping .
Russian forces have hit more than 80 vessels believed involved in supplying the Ukrainian military in the month of July alone , state TASS writes based on official defense ministry data.
The report goes on to detail : "Among them were two dry cargo ships, a sea ferry transporting military cargo and a screening boat hit in overnight group strikes on July 12, according to the ministry."
"On the same day, the ministry released footage that showed Geran-4 Seeker drones destroying a seiner converted to launch unmanned boats, a patrol boat, a ferry and a dry cargo ship," the report adds.
"According to the ministry, Russian forces struck 24 seagoing vessels used by the Ukrainian military for supplies during the week of July 11-17 , including 14 dry cargo ships and one tanker," TASS continnues.
Moscow seeks to sever military supply routes and disrupt arms shipments bound for Ukraine, but this has also obviously resulted in damaged and sunken tankers, auxiliary vessels, and even deaths of civilian bystanders among international shipping crew.
Russia's military has said that early last week it especially targeted key logistics hubs of Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Port of Mykolaiv (Nikolayev) - with the latter site seeing a docked cargo vessel receiving a direct strike.
Ukraine's small but high-tech drone boats have gotten more advanced and difficult to defend against...
All of this comes after local authorities in Odessa had confirmed that a foreign-flagged cargo ship, which some reports have identified as the Guinea-Bissau-flagged Golden Leo, capsized and sank near the coast after taking heavy damage from a Russian attack in late July.
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 17:30 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:55:00 +0000 New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable
New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable
New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable
Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times ,
California, the most populous U.S. state and the one with the largest economy, ranked as the 35th best state in a new ranking published by U.S. News on July 28.
South Orange County communities near Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 15, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Utah ranked as the best state, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.
The ranking was based on scores in eight categories such as education, healthcare, economy, and fiscal stability, and it was weighted by survey opinions.
Despite a median income of more than $100,000 compared to the national average of $81,600, California ranked last in the category of opportunity . This was partially because it ranked last in affordability, which was based on a cost-of-living index score and housing affordability index score.
The state's Department of Housing & Community Development considers a six-figure salary as low-income in many of its coastal hubs.
According to the income limits it set on June 23, $100,000 is classified as low in seven counties - San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, and Orange.
Santa Cruz County has the highest cutoff for what's considered low-income at $122,200 for a single-person household.
California's Legislative Analyst's Office said a mid-tier house costs about $775,000 in the state, nearly double the national average of $398,771 .
"California home prices continue to be much more expensive than the rest of the US," it said in its 2026 Housing Affordability Tracker.
Among all categories in U.S. News's ranking, the state's highest score was in healthcare at 7th place , including 6th in healthcare quality and 5th in public health.
Public health looked at infant mortality rate, mortality rate, obesity rate, smoking rate, suicide rate, and mental health.
The report states that 8.4 percent of California's population is without health insurance, compared to the national average of 11.3 percent. It added that its obesity rate is 29.1 percent compared to 34.2 percent nationally.
The state also ranked 25th in education but 6th in higher education, which assessed graduation rates as well as low debt at graduation and low tuition fees.
However, California's K-12 education ranked 41st, which was based on high school graduation rates, preschool enrollment, and test scores.
A separate report last month listed six California cities - Visalia, Bakersfield, Modesto, Fresno, Stockton, and Salinas - among the 10 least educated metropolitan areas in the United States.
The list looked at the share of adults at least 25 years old who have a high school diploma or higher, who have at least some college experience, who have a bachelor's degree or higher, and who have a graduate or professional degree.
While many Central Valley areas scored low, Silicon Valley's San Jose metro ranked as the fourth most educated, while the San Francisco metro ranked eighth.
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 16:55 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:20:00 +0000 The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working
The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working
The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working
Authored by Noah Wall via The American Mind ,
On July 14, the State Leadership Initiative was honored to host the Florida DOGE team and their tech partners, Vulcan, Echelon, and DigiBuild, for the Florida DOGE Showcase in Washington, D.C. Spearheaded by Governor Ron DeSantis, the state has become the leader for providing accountable and efficient governance to its citizens .
Since its creation in 2025, the Florida DOGE team has identified nearly $1 billion in waste and abuse at the local government level and sent over $878 million back to the federal government . But the team's work extends beyond fiscal savings and budgetary cuts - it also includes auditing university curriculum and state union programs and reining in rogue municipalities that had adopted woke-left policies.
Take Florida's SB 1134, which banned counties and municipalities from using government funds for discriminatory DEI programs and activities. Florida DOGE found that local governments were forcing employees to undergo "Transgender Humility" training , which included the use of a "wheel of power/privilege" that singled out certain ethnic groups as being worse than others. In some extreme cases, the team found that local governments were directing taxpayer dollars to immigration lawyers who represented criminal illegal aliens. All of this was identified by Florida DOGE and prohibited by law.
This ideological audit was most prevalent in universities, where the team examined over 74,000 syllabi and 100,000 research articles for left-wing ideological content . Funding for these DEI-related activities was effectively halted through SB 266 and SB 7044. While the federal DOGE program failed to codify reform through legislation, Florida DOGE succeeded.
Florida DOGE has proven it is the model to emulate . The next step is to provide the blueprint for bringing it to other states.
Enter the State DOGE Playbook , a collaborative effort between the State Leadership Initiative and the Florida DOGE team
Instead of Elon Musk drawing from his own stable of engineers, Florida hired volunteers and tech-minded interns to leverage new technologies to conduct investigations and root out waste and ideological indoctrination previously unheard of at the state level. Many of Florida DOGE's accomplishments were secured with a team of only three full-time employees , supplemented by a staff Florida put together. SLI is proud to be part of this effort; we even sent two of our own to act as special government employees , at no cost to the state, to help identify shadow government organizations funded by the state, local governments, and universities.
All that's needed are a few liaisons for law enforcement and legislators, and the rest is bulk data analysis. Add to this that Florida DOGE implemented these reforms on just a six-figure budget . Rarely have government initiatives accomplished so much in such a cost-effective manner.
None of these accomplishments would've been possible without the power of new AI tools and data-analysis technologies provided by three partners: Echelon, Vulcan Technologies, and DigiBuild. While varying in scope, each was instrumental in identifying waste and abuse during the audits, leading to the most significant reforms in Florida.
Echelon was used to analyze spending and waste in the Lee County school district. Florida DOGE identified up to $80 million in potential savings through contract reviews and more than $8 million in savings by eliminating 170 unnecessary positions spanning 30 departments. Programs like this can restore public schools to their proper mission rather than serving as a patronage scheme for overeducated administrative staff.
Vulcan Technologies was utilized to conduct top-to-bottom payment transaction audits across the state . It was so effective that local governments throughout Florida are implementing it to find opportunities for savings. In a time when property taxes are a dominant issue among voters, AI and DOGE principles are bridging the gap, fulfilling the public's demand for making cuts and providing the services local governments owe their citizens.
Many other states have similar programs. Texas's Office of Regulatory Efficiency has generated over 400 reductions in administrative code, and Oklahoma's DOGE office has produced over $19 million in cuts . But Florida's success remains unparalleled, and SLI's State DOGE Playbook explains how to emulate its success.
Blue states across the country continue to bankrupt themselves by allowing endless fraud and overfunded programs that never deliver on their promises. It's not enough for red states to avoid these pitfalls - red states need to match Florida's pace and provide the governance their citizens deserve . With this playbook, there are no more excuses, only the will to act.
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 16:20 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000 "Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian
"Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian
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"Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian
Update (1245ET) exclaiming his displeasure in a post on X :
I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM...
...that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned in giant letters on it, and other elements of the surrounding area.
There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS! "
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As we detailed earlier, the Department of Justice dropped the case against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in a court filing on July 31.
Former U.S. Olympic canoe racer David Hearn, 67, was accused of vandalizing the landmark this summer by allegedly pulling up and tearing the protective liner at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool after a $14.7 million renovation .
According to Jacki Thrapp, reporting for The Epoch Times, court documents reveal that after Hearn was indicted, the Department of the Interior provided additional documents to prosecutors which showed that damage in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor , Atlantic Industrial Coatings.
According to Friday’s filing, the flawed installation happened during “the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026.”
A defense expert inspected the pool when it was drained, to fix the damage, on July 17 with United States Attorney Jeanine Pirro and staffers and “immediately noted extensive damage.”
The discovery prompted them to dive deeper into installation documents, which showed there were “repeated failures of the lining during the installation process,” according to court docs.
“Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt,”
Hearn’s lawyers said in a statement that the case should have never been brought.
“Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong,” the statement read. “The government’s approach was ready, fire, aim. The administration owes Mr. Hearn an apology.”
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington on June 26, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
The athlete, who previously owned a company that manufactured materials for vessels and competed in the Summer Olympics in 1992, 1996, and 2000, denied allegations that he intentionally tried to damage the pool.
Hearn previously said that he only reached into the water to inspect a section after he saw that the coating was already peeling.
The patriotic pool is nearly 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide, and can be as deep as 30 inches at its center.
The Maryland-born competitor’s trial was expected to start on Sept. 28 in D.C. Superior Court before the case was dropped on Friday.
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 15:45 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:10:00 +0000 Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops
Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops
Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops
Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times ,
Two Chinese men have been identified as suspects in the shooting and kidnapping of a Chino Hills resident who was later found mortally wounded in the trunk of their vehicle after one suspect fired into it during a police stop , the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a July 31 statement to The Epoch Times.
A home on the street in Chino Hills, Calif., where the shooting and kidnapping occurred. Zhao Ziting/The Epoch Times The department identified the suspects as Bo Zhengfeng, 67, and Bo Jianquan, 66 , both Irvine residents. The victim was identified as Shukur Aikebaer, 60, of Chino Hills.
The sheriff's department did not identify the suspects' citizenship.
Investigators said power to Aikebaer's home was interrupted on the night of July 29. When he went outside to inspect the electrical panel, the two men allegedly shot and kidnapped him .
Deputies later stopped the suspects' vehicle after a short pursuit. Bo Jianquan surrendered, but Bo Zhengfeng exited the vehicle, approached its open trunk, and fired into it , the department said.
Deputies then shot Bo Zhengfeng and discovered Aikebaer inside the trunk with a gunshot wound . Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.
Gunshots and Screams Reported
Deputies were dispatched to the 2100 block of Monteverde Drive at about 10:14 p.m. after a caller reported hearing gunshots and someone screaming .
While deputies were responding, they spotted the suspects' vehicle traveling at high speed and attempted to stop it. The driver refused to yield, leading deputies on a short pursuit that ended in the 2400 block of Wandering Ridge Drive.
Deputies ordered both occupants out of the vehicle.
Bo Jianquan, the passenger, complied and was taken into custody. Bo Zhengfeng, the driver, did not comply, according to the department.
Bo Zhengfeng then shot Aikebaer, and deputies opened fire, striking him. Deputies attempted lifesaving measures on both wounded men. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Bo Jianquan was not injured, and no deputies were injured.
Prior Business Relationship
The sheriff's department said Bo Zhengfeng and Aikebaer knew each other through a prior working relationship .
California corporate records show both men were connected to Panshi Inc., an investment company formed in 2018 .
Bo Zhengfeng was listed as the company's chief executive and director. Aikebaer - under the name Aikebaer Abuduxukuer - was listed as secretary and registered agent.
Both were listed at the same Irvine address.
Public property records identify Aikebaer Abuduxukuer as the owner of the Chino Hills home where the kidnapping began. The age and address in those records match the victim identified by the sheriff's department.
Irvine Home Searched
Investigators later searched the Irvine home that Bo Zhengfeng shared with Bo Jianquan , according to the sheriff's department.
Public property records identify the address used by several of Bo Zhengfeng's companies as a home owned by Bo since 2018. Panshi Inc. records also listed the victim, under the name Aikebaer Abuduxukuer, at that address.
The search was carried out with assistance from the Irvine Police Department.
Bo Jianquan was booked at the West Valley Detention Center on suspicion of murder and kidnapping and was being held without bail .
The sheriff's inmate system listed his first court appearance for Aug. 3 at the Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse.
The sheriff's department said the investigation would be forwarded to the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office for review and the filing of charges.
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 15:10 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:35:00 +0000 Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again
Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again
There were no Friday night into Saturday morning US attacks on Iran, after President Trump warned he has Read more.....
Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again
There were no Friday night into Saturday morning US attacks on Iran, after President Trump warned he has given an order to hit Iran 'hard' - though didn't disclose a timeline . Friday reports in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Axios strongly suggested that large US strikes would commence at some point this weekend , as the region remains on edge.
The only new and recent attacks have been more apparent Iranian drone strikes on Kuwait . Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday has confirmed Iran’s "continued aggression" against it after a drone attack earlier targeted "vital installations" .
Kuwait City file image The ministry called out the attacks as a "flagrant violation" of Kuwait’s sovereignty which reveal a "determination to persist in a hostile approach." It said the country reserves the right to “take all necessary measures” to protect its security and resources.
According to some details in The Wall Street Journal :
Iran fired a drone barrage into Kuwait on Saturday , hitting a U.S. ally following President Trump’s vow to intensify military strikes in a rapidly expanding Middle East war.
Kuwait said it shot down the Iranian volley , but the renewed fire added more tension to a region bracing for more conflict. Trump ordered the military to launch a fresh attack on Iran to bring Tehran to the negotiating table, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
U.S. embassies in the Middle East told Americans to consider departing the region. Airlines are extending flight cancellations to Arab Gulf states, which have spent decades building themselves up as international airport hubs. The U.S. warned airspaces may soon be closed .
Ahead of likely reviewed US attacks on Iran, which could possibly involve Israel too, the US Department of State has re-issued an urgent travel warning for the entire Middle East region, saying "Americans in the region should consider departing, or be prepared to depart should there be escalation."
"Americans outside the Middle East should seriously reconsider travel to and through the region," it said on X Saturday, adding that "Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other US interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world."
President Trump had made clear on Friday while at Camp David his view that the Iranians can't be trusted, are 'dishonorable' - and so he's not pursuing talks.
And then a late Friday CBS report sounded the alarm of more escalation, saying that "The United States and Israel are planning what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran, multiple sources told CBS News, with strikes possible throughout the weekend."
The report added, "There was some discussion about trying to conclude by the time financial markets open Monday because of concern about how the bombings will affect the U.S. and global economy, but an end point wasn't locked in."
Earlier this week there were reports of Trump exploding at his own advisors amid ongoing debates about how the crisis should be handled, and finding an exit strategy. Likely the word 'quagmire' can increasingly be heard around Washington. Trump officials have sought to bat down criticisms of getting the US stuck in another forever war in the Middle East.
"Well, they always want to talk, but they break their words so often," Trump said Friday at Camp David of the Iranians, putting his frustration on display later adding: "All they do is make me angry."
Also, key line from a recent WSJ report points to where things are likely headed: "Some U.S. officials believe Iran will continue to drag out negotiations, banking that Trump will abandon his war efforts in the long term in the face of mounting domestic political opposition ."
Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2026 - 14:35 Close Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:10:00 +0000 22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare
22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare
22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare
Summary:
22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action " Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta InvasionSpain's Border Invasion Is An Optics Disaster For Open-Border Democrats Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging , Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain 22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" To Spanish Enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla Invasion
European leaders criticized Madrid's socialist government as its open-border policies unraveled for the world to see.
The invasion of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla by 50,000 military-aged men from Morocco exposed the dire consequences of nation-killing mass-migration policies promoted by socialist regimes, which have long eroded national sovereignty across the entire continent.
For Europe, the latest border breach represents one of the clearest warnings yet that uncontrolled mass migration has evolved from a political dispute into a full-blown national security crisis.
Hours after the invasion, Italy's Interior Ministry suspended Schengen free-movement rules with Spain and ordered the closure of air and maritime borders between the two countries, citing national security concerns.
The list of European leaders criticizing Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is growing on Saturday, as 22 EU leaders have now signed on to a demand for an "immediate and coordinated European response" to the invasion into Ceuta and Melilla.
"We cannot allow uncontrolled mass crossings, the instrumentalization of migration or other hybrid threats to create the perception that illegal entry into the European Union is possible ," EU leaders, including Denmark's Mette Frederiksen, Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Germany's Friedrich Merz, wrote in a letter published on X by Denmark's Ministry of State.
Sánchez and Spain's socialists are already feeling the impact of a negative information campaign that has spread across the West. The Trump administration is using the crisis as a warning to American voters ahead of the midterms that socialists gaining power would risk reopening the US border crisis. Political pressure on Sánchez will intensify further if illegal crossings resume or illegals reach mainland Europe.
The most likely pathway is, therefore, containment followed by political blowback against socialist parties in Madrid and across the bloc, rather than an immediate collapse of Schengen. Any second mass surge, however, would only suggest the weaponization of migration against Europe; in other words, asymmetric warfare.
The open-ended question is who, if anyone, on the Moroccan side financed, organized, and facilitated the invasion.
Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News ,
Nearly 50,000 military-aged men stormed the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco in a single day. What followed was not "asylum-seeking." It was open looting, home invasions, vehicle burnings, and street chaos while Spanish authorities largely stood aside.
Spain's socialist government under Pedro Sánchez had already rolled out mass regularisation schemes and refused to treat the border as a national emergency.
The result played out in real time across the North African territories that form the European Union's only land borders with Africa.
Estimates from Spain's Interior Ministry and local sources put the number who crossed into Ceuta alone at around 49,000 in 24 hours - roughly equivalent to the U.S. troop presence in the Middle East.
Ceuta's president Juan Jesús Vivas described the situation as "absolutely unsustainable" and a "total humanitarian and social emergency," noting reception centres were already saturated and more than 200 arrivals a day had become routine in the preceding period.
Reports have also suggested that the influx was so severe that at least 19 to 34 migrants died in the waters or in stampedes at the Tarajal breakwater.
Footage from the ground shows columns of young men pouring through streets, scaling fences, and swimming around coastal barriers.
In Melilla the scenes turned violent just as quickly. Migrants set vehicles ablaze after breaching the border fence.
There is obviously no processing of these arrivals anywhere for them to go. Further videos captured groups breaking into residential buildings, looting stores, and occupying private property.
Some clips show African migrants forcing entry into Spanish homes in Ceuta while residents look on helplessly.
News footage highlighted crowds ofmilitary-agedd migrant men surrounding a Spanish woman who was visibly distressed as the men laughed and closed in around her - an image that has circulated widely as a symbol of the total collapse of order.
Local residents did not simply accept the invasion. In Ceuta, Spanish patriots took to the streets themselves to protect their neighborhoods and homes when official forces proved insufficient.
Groups of men formed ad-hoc patrols, confronting the influx directly.
The Spanish response was a deployment of roughly 100 to 150 military personnel and additional police.
Orders, according to on-the-ground reports, were to hold position rather than aggressively close the border or remove the entrants. Armored vehicles appeared, yet the fence remained open in places, and the flow continued through the night.
One reporter on the scene at 4:30 a.m. described 100 people crossing every minute while the military presence did little to stem it.
The scale and coordination point beyond spontaneous movement. Moroccan authorities were filmed emptying trucks full of young men near the Ceuta border.
Separate videos show convoys of trucks and buses ferrying thousands toward the frontier from towns an hour away.
Facebook groups with tens of thousands of members openly shared routes, maps, equipment lists, and contact numbers, framing the crossing as a "liberation."
One widely shared clip asks the obvious questions: who feeds them, who sets the date and route, and who benefits?
Observers have noted the timing - coming after a Spanish Supreme Court ruling that limited immediate pushbacks for sea arrivals and against the backdrop of long-running territorial disputes over the enclaves.
Some speculate Morocco is testing Spain's resolve or seeking leverage. One analysis framed the surge as a potential path to forcing Spanish evacuation of the territories it has held for centuries.
By Friday morning, a curious reverse movement also appeared. Hundreds of the same men began heading back toward Morocco on their own, citing hunger and the fact that the city was largely shut down.
"We are hungry, we are going home," some said on camera.
The political fallout has already crossed the Mediterranean. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the images from Ceuta proof that uncontrolled illegal immigration poses a concrete threat to Europe's borders and said Italy was prepared to take extraordinary measures, including suspension of Schengen with Spain.
Matteo Salvini demanded the same.
In France, Marine Le Pen insisted on immediate reinforcement of border controls and, if she wins power, restriction of free movement to EU nationals only.
Marion Maréchal described the events as a genuine migrant invasion that requires ending the current Schengen framework.
Finland, Sweden and Denmark also announced Support for the move.
Some think it's too little too late, however.
Sánchez's government has spoken of "solutions" and "cooperation" while deploying limited forces and rejecting a formal national emergency declaration.
The footage from Ceuta and Melilla shows what that approach produces: overwhelmed police, residents forced to defend their own streets, homes occupied, and a clear message to the next wave that the door remains open.
Europe's external border has been tested in the most public way possible. The question now is whether any government still willing to enforce it remains.
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