The parents of Joaquin Oliver, one of the students killed in the 2018 Parkland high school shooting, have created an AI version of their late son, who partook in an interview today with journalist Jim Acosta. The interview took place on what would have been Oliver’s 25th birthday. The conversation, …
Read More »Parkland Victims' Families Reach $150 Million Settlement With Shooter
The families of three students killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting reached a $150 million settlement with the perpetrator of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The parents of Luke Hoyer, Alaina Petty, and Meadow Pollack — who were all killed by Nikolas Cruz on Feb. …
Read More »Kamala Harris: 'What Kind of Country Do We Want to Live In?'
O NE AFTERNOON IN LATE APRIL, Vice President Kamala Harris climbed into a large black car parked in the garage of the CBS Broadcast Center on New York’s West 57th Street and sat bolt-upright in the leather seat. She’d just finished taping an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show — …
Read More »Florida Supreme Court Reprimands Judge For Showing Bias During Parkland Shooting Trial
Back in November, Judge Elizabeth A. Scherer sentenced Nikolas Cruz to life in prison without parole for killing 17 people in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Now, nearly nine months later, the judge has received a public reprimand from the Florida Supreme …
Read More »Father of Parkland Victim Arrested at Congressional Gun Hearing
A man who lost his son in the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, was arrested outside of a House hearing on the Second Amendment on Thursday. Manuel Oliver, as well as his wife Patricia Oliver, were ejected from the hearing after exchanging words with lawmakers prior to the arrest. …
Read More »Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Officially Sentenced to Life in Prison
Nikolas Cruz was formally sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing 17 people in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, according to The Associated Press. The sentence was handed down Nov. 2, several weeks after the jury recommended he receive life in …
Read More »Jurors Detail 'Tense' Deliberations Over Parkland Shooter's Fate: 'It Got Ugly'
Jurors in Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s sentencing trial detailed the “tense” deliberations that resulted in a recommendation of life in prison — and not the death penalty — for the person responsible for killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. While Gov. Ron DiSantis blamed “a single holdout” …
Read More »Jurors in Parkland Shooter's Death Penalty Trial Tour Bloodstained School Building Where Tragedy Occurred
Jurors visited the school building where the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting occurred Thursday as part of the trial to decide whether Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz should receive the death penalty. Cruz previously pleaded guilty in October to charges related to the Feb. 2018 shooting that left 14 …
Read More »Parkland Survivors Relive Shooting at Death Penalty Trial: 'I'm Trying Not to Freak Out'
Survivors of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, recalled watching their classmates die, suffering their own injuries, and confronting admitted shooter Nikolas Cruz during testimony on the second day of Cruz’s sentencing trial. Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of premeditated and attempted …
Read More »Inside Operation Gideon, a Coup Gone Very Wrong
T he two Americans left late on May 2nd, 2020, well after dark had fallen on an arid beach near Castilletes, in northern Colombia. The men, both ex-Special Forces, had been waiting to pile into a flat-bottomed boat stocked with guns and ammunition and about 50 Venezuelan revolutionaries for a …
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