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Man arrested in Molotov cocktail attack at Tesla shop in Las Vegas will also face federal charges

Paul Hyon Kim, 36, faces multiple charges, including arson

March 27, 2025 3:38pm EDT

A Las Vegas man has been charged in the Molotov cocktail attack that torched several Teslas at a dealership last week.

Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was arrested Wednesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, after at least five cars were allegedly set on fireon March 18 at a local Tesla Collision Center.

Kim has been =charged with multiple crimes ranging from destruction of property, arson and possessing a fire device, according to jail records.==

He will also facefederal charges, Spencer Evans, the FBI agent-in-charge of the bureau's Las Vegas office, told reporters at a Thursday news briefing.

"There's nothing courageous or noble about firebombing private property and terrorizing your local community," Evans said. "The self-righteous mob that's cheering you on today to commit acts of violence on their behalf will leave you high and dry and forget about you tomorrow. And at the end of the day, you and you alone will be held responsible and face the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence."

Police say Kim arrived near the location in a black Hyundai Elantra before walking over to the Tesla building. He allegedly concealed his face, wore gloves and black clothing.

He allegedly also damaged surveillance cameras with a rifle, police said.

The word "resist" was spray-painted on the Tesla center’s front doors. An unlit Molotov cocktail was found in one of the cars, police said.

Authorities said Kim's social media activity showed potential links to communist groups and Palestinian causes. His DNA matched DNA samples collected at the scene of the attack, authorities said.

Investigators searched two vehicles linked to Kim and his apartment, andfound multiple firearms, including rifles, a shotgun, a handgun and gun parts, as well as ammunition.

Multiple attacks on Tesla dealerships and factories have been reported in recent weeks, many stemming from opponents of the Trump administration and Elon Musk over his role with the electric vehicle company and his work within the administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In response, the FBI has launched a task force to crack down on violent attacks, with the group created in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) to coordinate investigative activity.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-molotov-cocktail-attack-tesla-shop-las-vegas-federal-charges

Scoop: Trump might let taxes rise for the rich to cover breaks on tips

Marc Caputo

Neil Irwin

The Trump administration is discussing a surprising option to help fulfill his campaign-trail promises:Allowing the richest Americans' tax rates to rise in return for cutting taxes on tips, a senior White House official tells Axios.

The big picture: Some White House officials believe letting income taxes on the very highest earners rise would buy breathing room on other priorities, and =•help blunt Democrats' attacks as they seek to extend President Trump's 2017 tax cuts.==

• Officials say all discussions are preliminary and nothing is set in stone.

By the numbers: Currently the top income tax rate is 37%, charged on income above $609,351 for an individual or $731,201 for a married couple.

• If the 2017 law were allowed to expire, that would jump to the pre-2018 rate of 39.6%, and lower the threshold above which the top rate applies.

•Around 1% of taxpayers are in that top bracket, though they pay a disproportionate share of income taxes.

• Under the budget reconciliation rules that Republicans seek to use to extend the tax cuts, that would free up more revenue that could be used to fulfill some of Trump's populist promises, such as eliminating taxes on tips.

Zoom out: It would aim to flip the script onDemocrats, whose messaging focuses on Republicans potentially slashing Medicaidand enlarging the deficit in order to fund tax cuts for the super-rich.

• "If we renew tax cuts for the rich paid for by throwing people off Medicaid, we're gonna get f–king slaughtered," the White House official said.

• As the GOP under Trump becomes more of the party of working-class voters, the political risks of raising rich people's taxes are relatively small, compared to the payoff of cutting taxes on tips in the growing service-sector economy.

•A majority of Americans, including a plurality of Republicans, support raising taxes on wealthier individuals, polls have shown.

Yes, but: Many Republicans would be reluctant to go along. A bedrock idea of conservative economic philosophy is idea that low taxes fuel economic growth.

• Raising rates on top earners, even if only by 2.6 percentage points,would be anathema to many Republican donors and elected officials who have made tax cuts coreto their party's brand.

• Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has warned of "economic calamity" if the 2017 tax cuts are not extended.

Flashback: Among Ronald Reagan's signature achievements was lowering the top marginal tax rate from 70% to 28% by the time he left office.

• A signature George W. Bush achievement was reducing the top marginal rate to 35%, from the Clinton-era 39.6%.

• If Trump were to sign legislation that allowed the top rate to move upward, it would be a reversal of that pattern.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/trump-taxes-wealthy

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Unelected Canada PM Mark Carney Accused of Plagiarizing Oxford Thesis

John Hayward28 Mar 2025

Liberal Party of Canada leader Mark Carney, who became prime minister upon Justin Trudeau’s resignation two weeks ago and will run as his party’s candidate in the April 28 snap election, has been accused of plagiarism in his 1995 thesis for a doctorate in economics from Oxford University.

The National Post on Friday pointed to ten clear examples of Carney using “full quotes, paraphrases, or slightly modified quotes from four previous works” in his 1995 thesiswithout “proper acknowledgement or attribution.”

The National Post printed the allegedly plagiarized passages from Carney’s thesis in their entirety, along with word-for-word quotes from the original material, and in each of the cited cases they were nearly identical.

The article ominouslynoted that “social status hasn’t stopped universities from revoking degrees” when infractions such as plagiarism were uncovered later.

“Many European ministers have had to resign following allegations that some of their university work was plagiarized or after having been stripped of some of their academic credentials,” the National Post recalled.

The Liberal Party was enraged by the National Post story,although it struggled to refute any of the allegations, and evidently could not dispute the accuracy of the ten instances highlighted by the paper. Instead, the campaign brought forth its own expert — Carney’s doctoral supervisor at the time his thesis was written, Dr. Margaret Meyer — to assert that nothing in the thesis rose to the level of actionable plagiarism.

Meyer told the National Post it was “mischaracterizing” the work, which she said included no “unusual academic practices.”

“When pieces are frequently referenced in an academic text, it is typical that overlapping language appears,” Meyer wrote.

“Mark’s thesis was evaluated and approved by a faculty committee that saw his work for what it is: an impressive and thoroughly researched analysis that set him apart from his peers,” she concluded.

The Liberal Party sneeringly dismissed the National Post as an “American-owned” publication and accused it of ignoring exculpatory evidence to condemn Carney “based on the ‘analysis’ of a Conservative donor and activist.”

The National Post marched out its own experts, one of whom was an Oxford graduate who preferred to remain anonymous “out of fear of being sued by Carney”to argue that Carney’s thesis absolutely does meet Oxford’s publishing standards for plagiarism in numerous passages.

“When you have something lifted verbatim from a source, in there without quotation marks or citation… that constitutes plagiarism,” the anonymous professor contended.

“He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism,” said the analyst quoted in the National Post article,Geoffrey Sigalet, an assistant professor and member of the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) advisory committeeon student discipline.

Sigalet saidsome of the examples of potential plagiarism cited in Carney’s thesis were clear, while others fell into a “grey area” under UBC’s standards known as “patchworking”— a somewhat careless practice in which citations are not provided in close proximity to quoted material, but are included elsewhere in the text.

Sigalet went on to observe that Oxford’s standards for such practices areconsiderably tighter, so Oxford would normally have censured Carney for minor infractionsthat UBC might have ignored.

The National Post pointed out that Sigalet’s duties include policing student submissions for plagiarism, so he would seem to be an informed analyst. He is presumably the expert the Liberal Party thought should be ignored because he is a “conservative donor and activist.” The Liberal Party did not care to divulge Meyer’s political contributions, or state whether her opinions should be ignored on the basis of partisan activity.

Some commenters noted that Meyer has an implicit conflict of interest beyond political considerations, since it would be embarrassing for her to concede that she approved Carney’s paper while ignoring multiple instances of plagiarism under Oxford’s standards.

The Conservative Party seems thus far content to let the plagiarism story simmer in its own juices,although Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre did share a link to the National Post story on Friday morning, without adding comments of his own.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/28/unelected-canada-pm-mark-carney-accused-of-plagiarizing-oxford-thesis/

Gutfeld: The chickens are coming home to roost

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the panel discuss the media's ‘theatrical hysteria’ over ‘Signalgate’ on ‘Gutfeld!’